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Turkic peoples

Also known as Turkic people

family of ethnic groups of Eurasia

AI overview

Turkic peoples are a family of ethnic groups spread across Eurasia who share linguistic and cultural connections. Understanding them matters because they comprise hundreds of millions of people across Central Asia, the Middle East, and beyond, making them a significant force in global history and contemporary geopolitics.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: ethnolinguistic group
Subclass of: Eurasian
Religion: Judaism
Population: 180000000

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Commons category: Turkic peoples
topic's main category: Category:Turkic peoples
studied by: Turkology
different from: Turki
topic has template: Template:Turkic peoples
language used: Turkic

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Encyclopedic overview

Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages.

According to historians and linguists, the Proto-Turkic language originated in Central-East Asia, potentially in the Altai-Sayan region, Mongolia or Tuva. Initially, Proto-Turkic speakers were potentially both hunter-gatherers and farmers; they later became nomadic pastoralists. Early and medieval Turkic groups exhibited a wide range of both East Asian and West-Eurasian physical appearances and genetic origins, in part through long-term contact with neighboring peoples such as Iranic, Mongolic, Tocharian, Uralic and Yeniseian peoples.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turkic peoples” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.