Dingling

The Dingling were an ancient people who appear in Chinese historiography in the context of the 1st century BCE.

Key facts

Language.name: Dingling
Language.familycolor: Altaic
Language.family: Turkic
Language.glotto: none
Language.iso3: none
Language.region: northern China
Language.ethnicity: Dingling
Language.extinct: after 7th century

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Contents

Etymology
Origin and migration
Dingling and Xiongnu
Assimilation
Cultural and linguistic theories
Turkic hypothesis
Tungusic hypothesis
Dené-Yeniseian hypothesis
Physical appearance
See also
Notes
References
Further reading

The Dingling were an ancient people who appear in Chinese historiography in the context of the 1st century BCE.

The Dingling are considered to have been an early Turkic-speaking people. They were also proposed to be the ancestors of Tungusic speakers among the later Shiwei people, or are related to Na-Dené and Yeniseian speakers.

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