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Mongolian is the official national language of Mongolia, where it is spoken by nearly 2.8 million people (2010 estimate), [83] and the official provincial language of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where there are at least 4.1 million ethnic Mongols. [84]
Their ancestors are referred to as Proto-Mongols. The largest contemporary Mongolic ethnic group is the Mongols . [ 1 ] Mongolic-speaking people, although distributed in a wide geographical area, show a high genetic affinity to each other, [ 2 ] and display continuity with ancient Northeast Asians.
“Reindeer People” to receive monthly allocation Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, The UB Post, May 14, 2013. A precarious life in Mongolia’s north, BBC Travel story by Anna Kaminski, June 10, 2014. We are Dukha: This is the Way of Our People; The Totem People's Preservation Project; New York Times article, August 23, 2021
The Slab-grave people were uniformly of Ancient Northeast Asian origin (ANA ), while Saka populations to the west combined Sintashta ( ) and Ancient Northeast Asian (Baikal EBA ) ancestry, with some BMAC component. Although the Xiongnu were ethnically heterogeneous as a whole, it appears that variability was highly related to social status.
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The Altai people came into contact with Russians in the 18th century. In the Tsarist period, the Altai were also known as Oirot or Oyrot (this name means "Oirat" and would later be carried on for the Oyrot Autonomous Oblast). The name was inherited from their being former subjects of the 17th-century Oirat-led Dzungar Khanate. [18]
He fought against a Manchu-Qing Dynasty army, and was defeated only in the following year and 80,000 people from his tribe were executed by Manchu army due to his "rebellion attempt". [22] By that period, the Upper Mongolian population reached 200,000 and were mainly under the rule of Khalkha Mongol princes who were in a marital alliance with ...
The ger (yurts) is part of the Mongolian national identity. The Secret History of the Mongols mentions Genghis Khan as the leader of all people who live in felt tents, called gers, and even today a large share of Mongolia's population lives in ger, even in Ulaanbaatar.