Tungusic peoples
Tungusic peoples are the peoples who speak Tungusic languages. The word originated in Tunguska, an ill-defined region of Siberia.
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[edit] Peoples
Tungusic peoples are:
- Evenks
- Evens
- Jurchens (name of the Manchu before the 16th century)
- Manchu
- Negidals
- Nani people
- Oroch people
- Orok people
- Oroqen people
- Udege people
- Ulchs
- Xibe
[edit] Location
The largest of the Tungusic peoples are the Manchu who number around 10,000,000. They are originally from Manchuria, which is now Northeast China but following their conquest of China in the 17th century, they have been almost totally assimilated into the main Han Chinese population of China. This process accelerated especially during the 20th century. The non-assimilated culture and language is still present in parts of northern China.
Evenks live in the Evenk Autonomous Okrug of Russia. Udege (Удэгейцы in Russian; ethnonym: удээ and удэхе, or udee and udehe correspondingly) are a people who live in the Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai regions, also in Russia.
2–3% of them are of Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup Y origin.
[edit] Gallery of Tungusic people and history
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A Manchu guard
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An Evenk home
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Nani children dancing
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Sibo military colonists
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An Udege family
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Tungus man in 1914 in Vorogovo, Siberia.
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Manchu royal costumes
[edit] References
- Mile Nedeljković, Leksikon naroda sveta, Beograd, 2001.
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