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)
Evenki people
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The Evenki, or Tungusy, are a Tungusic people of North Asia. In Russia, the Evenki are recognised as one of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian North, with a population of 38,396. In China, the Even
Tungusic peoples
…artificial, and properly refers just to the linguistic family (Tungusic languages). It is derived from Russian Tungus (Тунгус), a Russian exonym for the Evenks (Ewenki). English usage of Tungusic was introduced by Friedrich Max Müller in the 1850s, based on earlier use of German Tungusik by Heinrich Julius…
An Evenki family in the early 1900s
The lands of the Solons (Solonen) near Hailar (Chailar) in the late Qing Empire
An Evenki chum made from birch bark, Heilongjiang