Turanians
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Turanian is a term that has been used in references to diverse groups of people. Many of the uses of the word are obsolete. It may be:
- an Iranian ethnic group mentioned in the Avesta, see Turan.
- any historical people of Transoxiana or present-day Turkistan.
- any historical Ural–Altaic people, in particular:
- the Turkic peoples during Turkic expansion.
- the Huns described by the Europeans and Chinese.
- the Mongols, who are distantly related to the Turks.
- some sources has mentioned the Japanese people.
- non-Semitic and non-Indo-European peoples of the Late Bronze Age, see Hurro-Urartian and Etruscans.
- the Dravidian people of southern India and Pakistan.
- speakers of Caucasian Languages.
- The Basques of western Europe (northern Spain and southwest France) are theorized to have Turanian ancestors.
- The Sami or Lapps of northern Scandinavia.
- Finno-Ugric peoples like the Finns, Estonians and Hungarians.
- Turanianism promotes the idea of Turanians are the oldest ethnocultural groups of humanity, and how East Asians, sub-Saharan Africans, white Caucasians or Indo-Europeans ("Aryans"), and indigenous peoples of the Americas are theoratic descendants of a former Turanian "race" of the last ice age.
- the term has some currency in Turkish nationalism, see Turanism, Turanian Society and Pan-Turkism.
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