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Ethnic distinctions among the Mongol subgroups are relatively minor. Language or tribal differences are not a political or social issue. [citation needed] Turkic speaking Kazakhs form the largest ethnic minority and constitute c. 3.9% of Mongolia's population. Khotons and Chantuu are Mongolized people with Turkic origin and speak Mongolian.
Mongolian is the official national language of Mongolia, where it is spoken by nearly 2.8 million people (2010 estimate), [81] and the official provincial language of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where there are at least 4.1 million ethnic Mongols. [82]
A large Mongolian component took [citation needed] in the ethnic formation of the Hazaras. [7] The high frequency [citation needed] of haplogroup C2-M217 is consistent [citation needed] with the purported Mongolian origin of many of the Hazaras. [8] Modern Hazaras speak Hazaragi, one of the dialects of the Dari/Persian language.
The culture of Mongolia has been shaped by the country's nomadic tradition and its position at the crossroads of various empires and civilizations. Mongolian culture is influenced by the cultures of the Mongolic , Turkic , and East Asian peoples, as well as by the country's geography and its history of political and economic interactions with ...
The name Mongolia means the "Land of the Mongols" in Latin. The Mongolian word "Mongol" (монгол) is of uncertain etymology.Sükhbataar (1992) and de la Vaissière (2021) proposed it being a derivation from Mugulü, the 4th-century founder of the Rouran Khaganate, [13] first attested as the 'Mungu', [14] (Chinese: 蒙兀, Modern Chinese Měngwù, Middle Chinese Muwngu), [15] a branch of ...
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Mongolia" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Mongolian as a term for race was first introduced in 1785 by Christoph Meiners, a scholar at the then modern Göttingen University.Meiners divided humanity into two races he labeled "Tartar-Caucasians" and "Mongolians", believing the former to be beautiful, the latter to be "weak in body and spirit, bad, and lacking in virtue".
The Mongolian usage of "Tangut" most likely referred to the "Donghu people;" "-t" in Mongolian language means "people". [52] [53] Whereas "Donghu" was a Chinese transcription, its Mongolian reference was "Tünghu". [54] By the time that the Mongols emerged in the thirteenth century, the only "Donghu people" who existed were the "Tu" in Western Xia.