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Nomads Test 2
Nomads of Eurasia Test 2
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
02/18/2013

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Term
Turkic speaking groups
Definition
Yakut (Sakha), Dolgan (new group formed from Yakut + Ewenki, who speak a Turkic
language) also, back in Europe: Tatar, Bashkir, Chuvash (the unique L-Turkic language)
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Uralic speaking groups
Definition
Mari, Mordvin, Udmurt, Komi
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Tungusic speaking groups
Definition
Ewenki, Ewen, Orok, Oroch, Nanai, Ulchi, Negidal
Term
Manchu speaking groups
Definition
Udegei (closely related to Tungusic)
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Chukchi-Kamchatkan speaking groups
Definition
Chukchi, Koryak, Itelmen, the Chuvan
Term
Eskimo-Aleut
Definition
Yupik, Aleut
Term
Language Isolates
Definition
Yukagir, Nivkh, Ainu in Japan, and Tlingit in Alaska (speaking a language related to Athabaskan languages and also to Ket way back in central Siberia)
Term
Paleosiberians
Definition
a grab-bag group based partly on language, partly on food economy that includes Chukchi, Koryak, Itelmen, as well as Eskimo, Aleut, Yukagir, Nivkh, Ainu (though Ainu are usually omitted in works dealing with Russia because they no longer live on the territory of Russia)
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