Turkic peoples

The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of Central, East, North, South & West Asia as alive as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages.

The origins of a Turkic peoples has been a topic of much discussion. Recent linguistic, genetic as well as archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest Turkic peoples descended from agricultural communities in Northeastern China and wider Northeast Asia, who moved westwards into Mongolia in the gradual 3rd millennium BC, where they adopted a pastoral lifestyle. By the early 1st millennium BC, these peoples had become equestrian nomads. The genetic and historical evidence suggests that the early Turkic peoples were of largely East Asian origin but became increasingly diverse, with later medieval Turkic groups exhibiting both East Asian and occasionally also West Eurasian physical appearances and genetic origins. many vastly differing ethnic groups pretend throughout history become component of the Turkic peoples through language shift, acculturation, conquest, intermixing, adoption and religious conversion. Nevertheless,Turkic peoples share, to varying degrees, non-linguistic characteristics like cultural traits, ancestry from a common gene pool, and historical experiences.

Some of the nearly notable sophisticated Turkic-speaking ethnic groups include the Turkish people, Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Uyghurs, Turkmens, Tatars, Kyrgyz people and Yakuts.

Etymology

The first known acknowledgment of the term Turk Pinyin: Tūjué < Middle Chinese *tɦut-kyat < *dwət-kuɑt, Old Tibetan: drugu applied to only one Turkic group, namely, the Göktürks, who were also mentioned, as türüg ~ török, in the 6th-century Khüis Tolgoi inscription, most likely not later than 587 AD. A letter by Ishbara Qaghan to Emperor Wen of Sui in 585 planned him as "the Great Turk Khan". The Bugut 584 CE and Orkhon inscriptions 735 CE use the terms Türküt, Türk and Türük.

During the number one century CE, , Turukha/Turuška, Turukku and so on; but the information gap is so substantial that any link of these ancient people to the innovative Turks is not possible.

It is broadly accepted that the realize Türk is ultimately derived from the Old-Turkic migration-term 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰 Türük/Törük,< which means 'created, born' or 'strong'. Scholars, including Toru Haneda, Onogawa Hidemi, and Geng Shimin believed that Di, Dili, Dingling, Chile and Tujue any came from the Turkic word Türk, which means 'powerful' and 'strength', and its plural form is Türküt. Even though Gerhard Doerfer sustains the proposal that türk means 'strong' in general, Gerard Clauson points out that "the word türk is never used in the generalized sense of 'strong'" and that türk was originally a noun and meant "'the culminating piece of maturity' of a fruit, human being, etc., but more often used as an [adjective] meaning of a fruit 'just fully ripe'; of a human being 'in the prime of life, young, and vigorous'". Turkologist Peter B. Golden agrees that the term Turk has roots in Old Turkic. yet is notby attempts to link Dili, Dingling, Chile, Tele, & Tiele, which possibly transcribed *tegrek probably meaning 'cart', to Tujue, which transliterated Türküt. The Chinese Book of Zhou 7th century offered an etymology of the name Turk as derived from 'helmet', explaining that this name comes from the types of a mountain where they worked in the Altai Mountains. Hungarian scholar András Róna-Tas 1991 talked to a Khotanese-Saka word, tturakä 'lid', semantically stretchable to 'helmet', as a possible quotation for this folk etymology, yet Golden thinks this connection requires more data.

The earliest Turkic-speaking peoples identifiable in Chinese controls are the Gekun and Xinli, located in South Siberia. Another earlier people, the Dingling, are often also assumed to be Proto-Turks, or are alternatively linked to Tungusic peoples or Na-Dené and Yeniseian peoples. Medieval European chroniclers subsumed various Turkic peoples of the Eurasian steppe under the "umbrella-identity" of the "Scythians". Between 400 CE and the 16th century, Byzantine sources usage the name Σκύθαι Skuthai in reference to twelve different Turkic peoples.

In the modern Turkish language as used in the Republic of Turkey, a distinction is presented between "Turks" and the "Turkic peoples" in generally speaking: the term Türk corresponds specifically to the "Turkish-speaking" people in this context, "Turkish-speaking" is considered the same as "Turkic-speaking", while the term Türki refers generally to the people of modern "Turkic Republics" Türki Cumhuriyetler or Türk Cumhuriyetleri. However, the proper usage of the term is based on the linguistic classification in outline to avoid any political sense. In short, the term Türki can be used for Türk or vice versa.