Tungusic people
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Tungusic peoples are the peoples who speak Tungusic languages that belong to the Altaic languages. The word originated in Tunguska, an ill-defined region of Siberia.
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[edit] Peoples
Tungusic peoples are:
- Evenks
- Evens
- Jurchens (Names of the Manchu before 16th century)
- Manchu
- Negidals
- Nanai
- Oroch
- Orok
- Oroqen
- Udege
- Ulchs
- Xibe
[edit] Location
The largest of the Tungusic peoples are the Manchu who are around 10,000,000 in number. They are originally from Northeast China (Manchuria), but since then they conquered China in the 1600s, especially during the 1900s, whe they were almost totally been assimilated into the main Han Chinese population of China, though are often still living in 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 oragin.
[edit] Gallery of Tungusic people and history
 A Manchurian guard |
 An Evenk home |
 Nanai children dancing |
 An Udege family |
 Xibe military colonists |
 Manchurian royal costumes |
[edit] References
- Mile Nedeljković, Leksikon naroda sveta, Beograd, 2001.
[edit] External links
Manchu Tungusic people of China
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