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  2. Kyrgyz people - Wikipedia

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    They speak the Kyrgyz language, which is the official language of Kyrgyzstan. [12] The earliest people known as "Kyrgyz" were the descendants of several Central Asian tribes, first emerging in western Mongolia around 201 BC. Modern Kyrgyz people are descended in part from the Yenisei Kyrgyz that lived in the Yenisey river valley in Siberia.

  3. Kyrgyzstan - Wikipedia

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    Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and China to the east and southeast. [14] [15] [16] Ethnic Kyrgyz make up the majority of the country's over 7 million people, followed by significant minorities of Uzbeks and Russians. [17] Kyrgyzstan's history spans a variety of cultures and ...

  4. Demographics of Central Asia - Wikipedia

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    The authors suggested that central Asian nomadic populations may have been Turkicized by an East Asian minority elite, resulting in a small but detectable increase in East Asian ancestry. However, these authors also found that Türkic period individuals were extremely genetically diverse, with some individuals being of near complete West ...

  5. Ethnic groups in Asia - Wikipedia

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    In terms of Asian people, there is an abundance of ethnic groups in Asia, with adaptations to the climate zones of the continent, ... Kyrgyzstan 837,000 (Russia, ...

  6. List of Asian countries by population - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Asian countries and dependencies by population in Asia, total projected population from the United Nations [1] ... Kyrgyzstan: 0.1%: 6,735,348:

  7. Culture of Kyrgyzstan - Wikipedia

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    Kyrgyzstan is the only former Soviet Central Asian republic to start out with two official languages, in this case Russian and Kyrgyz.An aggressive post-Soviet campaign was established to make the latter the official national language in all commercial and government uses by 1997; Russian is still used extensively, and the non-Kyrgyz population, most not Kyrgyz speakers, are hostile to ...

  8. Kyrgyz in China - Wikipedia

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    With the increasing conflict between Russian settlers who move into traditional Kyrgyz lands and nomadic Kyrgyz people, the Kyrgyz people are sure that China will defeat Russia in the coming war due to China's greater benefits to the Kyrgyz people compared to Russia, Many Kyrgyz people moved to China, and Russia also believed that the Kyrgyz ...

  9. Chinese people in Kyrgyzstan - Wikipedia

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    Chinese people in Kyrgyzstan have been growing in numbers since the late 1980s. [ 1 ] 2008 police statistics showed 60,000 Chinese nationals living in the country . [ 4 ] However, the 2009 census showed just 1,813 people who declared themselves to be of Chinese ethnicity.