Turkic peoples
collection of ethnic groups
Political distribution of the countries and autonomous subdivisions where a Turkic language has official status.
The Turkic peoples are a group of peoples. They are thought to have originated in Turkestan. They live in Northern and Central Eurasia. Turkic people speak languages belonging to the Turkic family. A Turkic person is called a Turk (e.g. the Kazakh Turks, the Kyrgyz Turks, etc., or in historical context: the Seljuq Turks, the Timurid Turks etc.). There are Turks in many places. They dominate Central Asia, there are many in the Caucasus area, Middle East, and Eastern Europe. There are also some in Pakistan and India, but are intermixed with the local people, like the Muhajir group in Pakistan. Turkic people can have varying looks, but they usually are black haired, green or blue eyed, and white skin.
Turkic Uyghur
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- Encyclopedia Britanica 1911 Edition
- turkicworld
- Ural-Altaic-Sumerian Etymological Dictionary
- Crimean Tatar Internet Resources
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- Kemal's Crimean Tatar Web Site with Crimean Tatar Language Resources
- Murad Adji's site Contains books in English
