Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples
	Current independent Turkic states in red
Total population
	Approx. 140–160 million or over 170 million

The Turkic peoples are a group of peoples. They speak languages belonging to the Turkic family. Turkics come mainly from these independent states: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.^[4]

However. Turkics live in many places and include most people in Central Asia. Many live in Siberia, the Caucasus area, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.

Turkic people can sometimes understand one other during communication because of their languages are often connected to Turkic and have the same words.

Pictures

Altai man in national suit on horseback.
Azerbaijani girls in traditional dress.
Bashkir boys in national dress.
A Chuvash woman dancer in traditional dress.
Young and old Gagauz people.
Old Karachay men in the 19th century.
Khakas people with traditional instruments.
Kazakh family inside a Yurt.
Kyrgyz elders in On-Archa, Kyrgyzstan.
Nogai man in national costume.
Yoruk girls in their traditional clothes.
Turkmen girl in national dress.
Tuvan men and women in Kyzyl, Tuva.
An Uyghur girl in Xinjiang, China.
Uzbek children in Samarkand.

Turkic Peoples Media

Map from Kashgari's Diwan (11th century), showing the distribution of Turkic tribes.
Bust of Kul Tigin (AD 684–731), prince of the Second Turkic Khaganate, found in Khashaat, Arkhangai Province, Orkhon River valley. National Museum of Mongolia.
Descriptive map of Turkic peoples.
A page from "Codex Kumanicus". The Codex was designed in order to help Catholic missionaries communicate with the Kumans.
Modern Turkic People PCA Analysis, and modelled proportions of Ancient Northeast Asian ancestry (ANA, ), as well as Chinese Yellow River (YR_NLA, ) and Sintashta ( ) ancestry.
According to Uchiyama et al. 2020 the "ultimate Proto-Turkic homeland may have been located in a more compact area, most likely in Eastern Mongolia".
Population structure of Turkic-speaking populations in the context of their geographic neighbors across Eurasia. Turkic-speaking populations are shown in red. The upper barplot shows only Turkic-speaking populations.
Territory of the Xiongnu, which included Mongolia, Western Manchuria, Xinjiang, East Kazakhstan, East Kyrgyzstan, Inner Mongolia, and Gansu.
The migration of the Bulgars after the fall of Old Great Bulgaria in the 7th century

Related pages

Turkic languages

References

↑ Brigitte Moser, Michael Wilhelm Weithmann, Landeskunde Türkei: Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Kultur, Buske Publishing, 2008, p. 173
↑ Deutsches Orient-Institut, Orient, Vol. 41, Alfred Röper Publushing, 2000, p. 611
↑ Yunusbayev et al. 2015.
↑ https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/785506

[1] Brigitte Moser, Michael Wilhelm Weithmann, Landeskunde Türkei: Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Kultur, Buske Publishing, 2008, p. 173

[2] Deutsches Orient-Institut, Orient, Vol. 41, Alfred Röper Publushing, 2000, p. 611

[FOOTNOTEYunusbayev_et_al.2015-3] Yunusbayev et al. 2015.

[4] ttps://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/785506

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Total population
Current independent Turkic states in red
Approx. 140–160 million^[1]^[2] or over 170 million^[3]