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Koreanic peoples
The countries and autonomous regions where a Koreanic languages has official status or is spoken by a majority.
Total population
Approx. 77 million
Regions with significant populations
 South Korea51000000~52000000
 North Korea25000000~26000000
  Jeju670000~680000
Languages
Koreanic languages
Religion
Majority:

Minority:

The Koreanic peoples are a collection of

ethnic groups of East, who speak Koreanic languages
.

The origins of the Koreanic peoples has been a topic of much discussion.

ethnic groups have throughout history become part of the Koreanic peoples through language shift, acculturation, intermixing, adoption and religious conversion. Nevertheless, certain Koreanic peoples share, to varying degrees, non-linguistic characteristics like cultural traits, ancestry from a common gene pool, and historical experiences.[2]

The most notable modern Koreanic-speaking ethnic groups include Koreans.

Etymology

The first known mention of the term Korea (

Jangsu
in 427 described him as "the Great Korean King." Previous use of similar terms are of unknown significance, although some strongly feel that they are evidence of the historical continuity of the term and the people as a linguistic unit since early times. This includes Chinese records
Old Joseon
.

List of ethnic groups

List of the modern Turkic peoples
Ethnonym National-state formation Religion
Yemaek
Gojoseon
Totemism, Shamanism
Buyeo Buyeo Shamanism
Koguryo
Koguryo
Buddhism
Balhae Balhae Buddhism
Korean
Korea Korea Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, Cheondoism
Baekje Baekje Buddhism
Mahan Mahan Shamanism
Silla Silla Shamanism, Buddhism
[[Gaya people|Gaya] ] Gaya Shamanism, Buddhism
Jeju Jeju (Korean Federation) Shamanism
Ulleung No Unknown


Possible Proto-Turkic ancestry, at least partial[3][4][5][6][7][8], has been posited for Xiongnu, Huns and Pannonian Avars, as well as Tuoba and Rouran-Tatars, who were of Proto-Mongolic Donghu ancestry.[9][10][11][12][13][a]

Notes

  1. ^ Even though Chinese historian ascribed Xiongnu origin to various nomadic peoples, such ascriptions do not necessarity indicate the subjects' exact origins; for examples, Xiongnu ancestry was ascribed to Turkic-speaking Tujue and Tiele as well as Para-Mongolic-speaking Kumo Xi and Khitan.[14]

Language

missionaries communicate with the Kumans
.

Distribution

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some 30 languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, to Siberia and Western China, and through to the Middle East. Some 170 million people have a Turkic language as their native language;[15] an additional 20 million people speak a Turkic language as a second language. The Turkic language with the greatest number of speakers is Turkish proper, or Anatolian Turkish, the speakers of which account for about 40% of all Turkic speakers.[16] More than one third of these are ethnic Turks of Turkey, dwelling predominantly in Turkey proper and formerly Ottoman-dominated areas of Southern and Eastern Europe and West Asia; as well as in Western Europe, Australia and the Americas as a result of immigration. The remainder of the Turkic people are concentrated in Central Asia, Russia, the Caucasus, China, and northern Iraq.

Alphabet

The Turkic alphabets are sets of related alphabets with letters (formerly known as runes), used for writing mostly Turkic languages. Inscriptions in Turkic alphabets were found in Mongolia. Most of the preserved inscriptions were dated to between 8th and 10th centuries CE.

The earliest positively dated and read Turkic inscriptions date from c. 150, and the alphabets were generally replaced by the

Turkic alphabet
was recorded in Central Europe's Hungary in 1699 CE.

The Turkic

Talas Valley of Turkestan and the Old Hungarian script of the 10th century. Irk Bitig is the only known complete manuscript text written in the Old Turkic script.[18]

The Turkic language family is traditionally considered to be part of the proposed Altaic language family.[19]

The various Turkic languages are usually considered in geographical groupings: the

Oghur language: Chuvash (the other Oghur languages, like Volga Bulgarian
, are now extinct). The high mobility and intermixing of Turkic peoples in history makes an exact classification extremely difficult.

The Turkish language belongs to the Oghuz subfamily of Turkic. It is for the most part mutually intelligible with the other Oghuz languages, which include Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Turkmen and Urum, and to a varying extent with the other Turkic languages.

Geographical distribution

Descriptive map of Turkic peoples.
Countries and autonomous subdivisions where a Turkic language has official status or is spoken by a majority.

While the Turkic language and people may have originated in Mongolia,[20][2] today most of the Turkic peoples today have their homelands in Central Asia,[citation needed] but can be found as far west as present-day Turkey.[21] While the term "Turk" may refer to a member of any Turkic people, the term Turkish usually refers specifically to the people and language of the modern country of Turkey.

At present, there are six independent Turkic countries: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan. The Turks in Turkey are over 60 million[22] to 70 million worldwide, while the second largest Turkic people are the Azerbaijanis, numbering 22 to 38 million worldwide; most of them live in Azerbaijan and Iran.

In the

Karachayevo-Cherkessiya. Each of these subdivisions has its own flag, parliament, laws, and official state language (in addition to Russian
).

The

.

Turks in India are very small in number. There are barely 150 Turkish people from Turkey in India. These are recent immigrants. Descendants of Turkish rulers also exist in Northern India. Mughals who are part Turkic people also live in India in significant numbers. They are descendants of the Mughal rulers of India. Karlugh Turks are also found in the Haraza region and in smaller number in Azad Kashmir region of Pakistan. Small amount of Uyghurs are also present in India. Turks also exist in Pakistan in similar proportions. One of the tribe in Hazara region of Pakistan is Karlugh Turks
which is direct descendant of Turks of Central Asia. Turkish influence in Pakistan can be seen through the national language, Urdu, which comes from a Turkish word meaning "horde" or "army".

The

Dolgan
at Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia, and the Nogai at Dagestan in Russia are the Turk minorities in the respective regions.

History

Eastern Hemisphere in 500 BCE

Origins

The origins of the Turkic peoples has historically been disputed, with many theories having been proposed.[1] Martine Robbeets suggests that the Turkic peoples were descended from a Transeurasian agricultural community based in northeast China, which is to be associated with the Xinglongwa culture and the succeeding Hongshan culture.[24][25] The East Asian agricultural origin of the Turkic peoples has been corroborated in multiple recent studies.[26][27] Around 2,200 BC, due to the desertification of northeast China, the agricultural ancestors of the Turkic peoples probably migrated westwards into Mongolia, where they adopted a pastoral lifestyle.[24]

Linguistic and genetic evidence strongly suggest an early presence of Turkic peoples in Mongolia.[20][1] Genetic studies have shown that the early Turkic peoples were of diverse origins, and that Turkic culture was spread westwards through language diffusion rather than migrations of a homogenous population.[28] The genetic evidence suggests that the Turkification of Central Asia was carried out by East Asian dominant minorities migrating out of Mongolia,[29] and that many Turkic peoples of Central Asia are descended from Turkified Indo-Iranians.[30][need quotation to verify]

Early historical attestation

Xiongnu, Mongolic, and proto-Turkic tribes (ca. 300 CE)

Turkic people may be related to the Xiongnu, Dingling and Tiele people. According to the Book of Wei, the Tiele people were the remnants of the Chidi (赤狄), the red Di people competing with the Jin in the Spring and Autumn period.[31] Historically they were established after the 6th century BCE.[32]

Historical Arab and Persian descriptions of Turks state that they looked strange from their perspective and were extremely physically different from Arabs. Turks were described as "broad faced people with small eyes".

Tibetans and Turks resembled each other, and that they often were not able to tell the difference between Turks and Tibetans.[35]

Xiongnu (3rd c. BCE – 1st c. CE)

Territory of the Xiongnu, which included Mongolia, Western Manchuria, Xinjiang, East Kazakhstan, East Kyrgyzstan, Inner Mongolia, and Gansu.

The earliest separate Turkic peoples appeared on the peripheries of the late

Han Dynasty).[36] It has often been suggested that the Xiongnu, mentioned in Han Dynasty records, were Proto-Turkic speakers.[37][38][39][40][41] Although little is known for certain about the Xiongnu language(s), it seems likely that at least a considerable part of Xiongnu tribes spoke a Turkic language.[42] Some scholars believe they were probably a confederation of various ethnic and linguistic groups.[43][44] A genetic research in 2003, on skeletons from a 2000 year old Xiongnu necropolis in Mongolia, found individuals with similar DNA sequences as modern Turkic groups, supporting the view that at least parts of the Xiongu were of Turkic origin.[45]

Xiongnu writing, older than Turkic, is agreed to have the earliest known

runic letters of the Turkic Orkhon script discovered in the Orkhon Valley.[48]

Huns (4th–6th c. CE)

Huns (c.450 CE)

The

Hun hordes ruled by Attila, who invaded and conquered much of Europe in the 5th century, might have been, at least partially, Turkic and descendants of the Xiongnu.[36][49][50] In the 18th century, the French scholar Joseph de Guignes became the first to propose a link between the Huns and the Xiongnu people, who were northern neighbours of China in the 3rd century BC.[51] Since Guignes' time, considerable scholarly effort has been devoted to investigating such a connection. The issue remains controversial. Their relationships to other peoples known collectively as the Iranian Huns
are also disputed.

Some scholars regard the Huns as one of the earlier Turkic tribes, while others view them as

Otto Maenchen-Helfen and others have suggested that the language used by the Huns in Europe was too little documented to be classified. Nevertheless, many of the proper names used by Huns appear to be Turkic in origin.[54][55]

Turkic peoples originally used their own alphabets, like

jewelry and as a protection against the evil eye
.

Steppe expansions

Göktürks – Turkic Khaganate (5th–8th c.)

First Turk Khaganate (600 CE)
The Eastern and Western Turkic Khaganates (600 CE)


Turkic tribes such as the

Juan Juan and established the Turkic Khaganate.[57]

In the 6th century, 400 years after the

Orkhon script. The Khaganate was also the first state known as "Turk". It eventually collapsed due to a series of dynastic conflicts, but many states and peoples later used the name "Turk".[58][59]

The Göktürks (

First Turkic Kaganate) quickly spread west to the Caspian Sea. Between 581 and 603 the Western Turkic Khaganate in Kazakhstan separated from the Eastern Turkic Khaganate in Mongolia and Manchuria during a civil war. The Han-Chinese successfully overthrew the Eastern Turks in 630 and created a military Protectorate until 682. After that time the Second Turkic Khaganate ruled large parts of the former Göktürk area. After several wars between Turks, Chinese and Tibetans, the weakened Second Turkic Khaganate was replaced by the Uyghur Khaganate in the year 744.[60]

Bulgars, Golden Horde and the Siberian Khanate

The migration of the Bulgars after the fall of Old Great Bulgaria in the 7th century

The

Volga Bulgars in what is today Tatarstan. These Bulgars were conquered by the Mongols following their westward sweep under Genghis Khan in the 13th century. Other Bulgars settled in Southeastern Europe in the 7th and 8th centuries, and mixed with the Slavic population, adopting what eventually became the Slavic Bulgarian language. Everywhere, Turkic groups mixed with the local populations to varying degrees.[57]

Golden Horde

The Volga Bulgaria became an Islamic state in 922 and influenced the region as it controlled many trade routes. In the 13th century, Mongols invaded Europe and established the

Kipchak Khanate and covered most of what is today Ukraine, as well as the entirety of modern-day southern and eastern Russia (the European section). The Golden Horde disintegrated into several khanates and hordes in the 15th and 16th century including the Crimean Khanate, Khanate of Kazan, and Kazakh Khanate
(among others), which were one by one conquered and annexed by the Russian Empire in the 16th through 19th centuries.

In Siberia, the

Siberian Khanate was established in the 1490s by fleeing Tatar aristocrats of the disintegrating Golden Horde who established Islam as the official religion in western Siberia over the partly Islamized native Siberian Tatars
and indigenous Uralic peoples. It was the northern-most Islamic state in recorded history and it survived up until 1598 when it was conquered by Russia.

Uyghur Khaganate (8th–9th c.)

Uyghur Khaganate
Uyghur royals

The Uyghur empire ruled large parts of Mongolia, Northern and Western China and parts of northern Manchuria. They followed largely Buddhism and animistic traditions. During the same time, the Shatuo Turks emerged as power factor in Northern and Central China and were recognized by the Tang Empire as allied power. The Uyghur empire fell after several wars in the year 840.[60][61]

The Turkic Later Tang Dynasty

The

sinicized dynasties in northern China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The official language of these dynasties was Chinese and they used Chinese titles and names. Some Shaotuo Turks emperors also claimed patrilineal Han Chinese ancestry.[62][63][64]

After the fall of the Tang-Dynasty in 907, the Shatuo Turks replaced them and created the Later Tang Dynasty in 923. The Shatuo Turks ruled over a large part of northern China, including Beijing. They adopted Chinese names and united Turkic and Chinese traditions. Later Tang fall in 937 but the Shatuo rose to become one of the most powerful clans of China. They created several other dynasies, including the Later Jin and Later Han. The Shatuo Turks were later assimilated into the Han Chinese ethnic group after they were conquered by the Song dynasty.[61][65]

The Yenisei Kyrgyz allied with China to destroy the Uyghur Khaganate in 840. The Kyrgyz people ultimately settled in the region now referred to as Kyrgyzstan.

Central Asia

Kangar union (659–750)
Kangar Union after the fall of Western Turkic Khaganate, 659–750

The Kangar Union (Qanghar Odaghu) was a

Kypchaks, attacked the Bulgars
and established the Pecheneg state in Eastern Europe (840–990 CE).

Oghuz Yabgu State (766–1055)
Oghuz Yabgu State (c.750 CE)

The Oguz Yabgu State (Oguz il, meaning "Oguz Land,", "Oguz Country")(750–1055) was a

Chui River
valley (see map). The Oguz political association developed in the 9th and 10th centuries in the basin of the middle and lower course of the Syr Darya and adjoining the modern western Kazakhstan steppes.

Iranian, Indian, Arabic, and Anatolian expansion

Turkic peoples and related groups migrated west from

Iranian plateau, South Asia, and Anatolia
(modern Turkey) in many waves. The date of the initial expansion remains unknown.

Persia

Ghaznavid dynasty (977–1186)
Ghaznavid Empire at its greatest extent in 1030 CE

The Ghaznavid dynasty (

Alp Tigin, who was a breakaway ex-general of the Samanid Empire from Balkh, north of the Hindu Kush in Greater Khorasan.[72]

Although the dynasty was of

Persianised in terms of language, culture, literature and habits[73][74][75][76] and hence is regarded by some as a "Persian dynasty".[77]

Seljuk Empire (1037–1194)
A map showing the Seljuk Empire at its height, upon the death of Malik Shah I in 1092.
Head of Seljuq male royal figure, 12–13th century, from Iran.

The Seljuk Empire (

Qiniq branch of Oghuz Turks.[82] At its greatest extent, the Seljuk Empire controlled a vast area stretching from western Anatolia and the Levant to the Hindu Kush in the east, and from Central Asia to the Persian Gulf
in the south.

The Seljuk empire was founded by

first crusade (1095–1099). From c. 1150–1250, the Seljuk empire declined, and was invaded by the Mongols around 1260. The Mongols divided Anatolia into emirates. Eventually one of these, the Ottoman
, would conquer the rest.

Timurid Empire (1370–1507)
Map of the Timurid Empire at its greatest extent under Timur.

The

Timurlane
, a descendant of Genghis Khan. Timur, although a self-proclaimed devout Muslim, brought great slaughter in his conquest of fellow Muslims in neighboring Islamic territory and contributed to the ultimate demise of many Muslim states, including the Golden Horde.

Safavid dynasty (1501–1736)

The

Muslim history

Afsharid dynasty (1736-1796)

The

Sassanid Empire
.

South Asia

Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire and Mughal emperor Humayun.

The

Southern India also saw many Turkic origin dynasties like the Bahmani Sultanate, the Adil Shahi dynasty, the Bidar Sultanate, and the Qutb Shahi dynasty, collectively known as the Deccan sultanates
. The
Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, on his mother's side.[99][100] A further distinction was the attempt of the Mughals to integrate Hindus and Muslims into a united Indian state.[99][101][102][103]

Arabian world

Silver dirham of AH 329 (940/941 CE), with the names of Caliph al-Muttaqi and Amir al-umara Bajkam (de facto ruler of the country)

The Arab Muslim

Tibetans and Turks resembled each other, and that they often were not able to tell the difference between Turks and Tibetans.[35]

Turkic soldiers in the army of the

Seljuk dynasty and eventually captured the territories of the Abbasid dynasty and the Byzantine Empire.[57]

Anatolia – Ottomans

Ottoman empire in 1683

After many battles, the western Oghuz Turks established their own state and later constructed the Ottoman Empire. The main migration of the Oghuz Turks occurred in medieval times, when they spread across most of Asia and into Europe and the Middle East.[57] They also took part in the military encounters of the Crusades.[104] In 1090–91, the Turkic Pechenegs reached the walls of Constantinople, where Emperor Alexius I with the aid of the Kipchaks annihilated their army.[105]

As the

Mongol invasion, the Ottoman Empire emerged as the new important Turkic state, that came to dominate not only the Middle East, but even southeastern Europe, parts of southwestern Russia, and northern Africa.[57]

Islamization

Turkic peoples like the

.

Modern history

Map highlighting present-day Turkic countries
Independent Turkic states shown in red

The Ottoman Empire gradually grew weaker in the face of poor administration, repeated wars with

Republic of Turkey.[57]
Ethnic nationalism also developed in Ottoman Empire during the 19th century, taking the form of Pan-Turkism or Turanism.

The Turkic peoples of Central Asia were not organized in nation-states during most of the 20th century, after the collapse of the

Chinese Republic
.

In 1991, after the disintegration of the

People's Republic of China
.

Immediately after the independence of the Turkic states, Turkey began seeking diplomatic relations with them. Over time political meetings between the Turkic countries increased and led to the establishment of

Turkic Council
in 2009.

International organizations

TÜRKSOY
members.