Tungusic peoples
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Tungusic peoples are an ethnolinguistic group formed by the speakers of Tungusic languages. They are native to Siberia and China. Manchus are by far the most populous Tungusic ethnic group.
Portrait of a Tungusic man by Carl Peter Mazer (1850)
The Manchu people in Fuzhou in 1915
An Evenks wooden home
Sibe military colonists (1885)
Nanai people
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The Nanai people are a Tungusic people of East Asia who have traditionally lived along the Amur, Songhua and Ussuri rivers on the Middle Amur Basin. The ancestors of the Nanai were the Wild Jurchens o
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…section of the (Mongolic) Shiwei and have been conquered by the expanding Manchu (Jurchen). Their language is mutually intelligible with Manchu. The Nanai (Goldi) are also derived from the Jurchen. The Orok (Ulta) are an offshoot of the Nanai. Other minor groups closely related to the Nanai are the Ulch…
Nanai children. Girls are in traditional costume "pokto".
Nanai family, Amur region
Hezhe people (Chinese: 赫哲), Huang Qing Zhigong Tu, 1769
Qilang people (Chinese: 奇楞), Huang Qing Zhigong Tu, 1769