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== List of ethnic groups ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of modern Turkic peoples
|-
! Ethnonym || Population || Region(s) || Religion
|-
|[[Turkish people|Turks]]|| 60,000,000–65,000,000 || {{flag|Turkey}}, {{Flag|Northern Cyprus}}  || [[Sunni Islam]], [[Alevism]]
|-
|[[Azerbaijanis]]|| 31,300,000 || {{flagicon|Iran}} [[Azerbaijan (Iran)|Azerbaijan]] (Iran), {{flag|Azerbaijan}}, {{flagcountry|Dagestan}} (Russian Federation) ||[[Shia Islam]], [[Sunni Islam]]
|-
|[[Uzbeks]]|| 30,700,000 || {{flag|Uzbekistan}} || rowspan="4" | [[Sunni Islam]]
|-
|[[Kazakhs]]|| 15,193,000 || {{flag|Kazakhstan}}, {{flagicon|Mongolia}} [[Bayan-Ölgii]], {{flagicon|China}} [[Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture]], [[Barköl Kazakh Autonomous County]], [[Mori Kazakh Autonomous County]], {{flagcountry|Altai Republic}}
|-
|[[Uyghurs]]|| 11,900,000 || {{flagicon|China}} [[Xinjiang]] Uyghur Autonomous Region (PRC) 
|-
|[[Turkmens]]|| 8,000,000 || {{flag|Turkmenistan}} 
|-
|[[Volga Tatars]]|| 6,200,000 || {{flagcountry|Tatarstan}} (Russian Federation)|| [[Sunni Islam]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]]
|-
|[[Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz]]|| 6,000,000 || {{flag|Kyrgyzstan}}, {{flagicon|China}} [[Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture]]|| rowspan="2" |[[Sunni Islam]]
|-
|[[Bashkirs]]|| 1,700,000 || {{flagcountry|Bashkortostan}} (Russian Federation)
|-
|[[Chuvashes]]|| 1,500,000 || {{flagcountry|Chuvashia}} (Russian Federation)|| [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]], [[Vattisen Yaly]]
|-
|[[Khorasani Turks]]|| 1,000,000 || rowspan="2" | N/A || rowspan="2" | [[Shia Islam]]
|-
|[[Qashqai people|Qashqai]]|| 949,000 
|-
|[[Karakalpaks]]|| 796,000 || {{flag|Karakalpakstan}} (Uzbekistan)|| rowspan="3" | [[Sunni Islam]]
|-
|[[Kumyks]]|| 520,000 || {{flagcountry|Dagestan}} (Russian Federation)
|-
|[[Crimean Tatars]]|| <500,000 ||
{{flagcountry|Crimea}} (Ukraine)
|-
|[[Yakuts]] (Sakha)|| 482,000 || {{flagicon|Sakha Republic}} [[Sakha Republic]] or Yakutia (Russian Federation) || [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]], [[Tengrism]]
|-
|[[Karachays]]|| 346,000 || {{flagcountry|Karachay-Cherkessia}} (Russian Federation) || [[Sunni Islam]]
|-
|[[Tuvans]]|| 273,000 || {{flagcountry|Tuva}} (Russian Federation)
|| [[Tibetan Buddhism]], [[Tengrism]]
|-
|[[Gagauz people|Gagauz]]|| 126,000 || {{flagicon|Gagauzia}} [[Gagauzia]] (Moldova)|| [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]]
|-
|[[Balkars]]|| 112,000 || {{flagcountry|Kabardino-Balkaria}} (Russian Federation) || rowspan="2" | [[Sunni Islam]]
|-
|[[Nogais]]|| 110,000 || {{flagcountry|Dagestan}} and {{flagcountry|Karachay-Cherkessia}} (Russian Federation) 
|-
|[[Salar people|Salar]]|| 104,000 || {{flagicon|China}} [[Xunhua Salar Autonomous County]], [[Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County]]
|| [[Sunni Islam]], [[Tibetan Buddhism]]
|-
|[[Khakas]]|| 75,000 || {{flagcountry|Khakassia}} (Russian Federation)
|| [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]], [[Tengrism]]
|-
|[[Altaians]]|| 74,000 || {{flagcountry|Altai Republic}} (Russian Federation)
|| [[Burkhanism]], [[Tengrism]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]]
|-
|[[Äynu people|Äynu]]|| >60,000 || rowspan="2" | N/A || [[Alevism]]
|-
|[[Khalaj people|Khalaj]]|| 42,000 || [[Shia Islam]]
|-
|[[Yugur]]s|| 13,000 ||
{{flagicon|China}} [[Sunan Yugur Autonomous County]]
|| [[Tibetan Buddhism]], [[Tengrism]]
|-
|[[Dolgans]]|| 13,000 ||
[[File:Flag of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug.svg|border|22px]] [[Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District]] (Russian Federation)
|| [[Tengrism]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]]
|-
|[[Khotons]]|| 10,000 || rowspan="17" | N/A || [[Sunni Islam]]
|-
|[[Nağaybäk]] || 8,000 || [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]]
|-
|[[Shors]]|| 8,000 || [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]], [[Tengrism]]
|-
|[[Siberian Tatars]]|| 6,000 || [[Sunni Islam]]
|-
|[[Telengits]] || 3,700 || [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]], [[Burkhanism]], [[Shamanism in Siberia|shamanism]]
|-
|[[Soyot]]s|| 3,600 
|| [[Tibetan Buddhism]], [[Tengrism]]
|-
|[[Kumandins]]|| 2,900 || rowspan="2" | [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]], [[Tengrism]]
|-
|[[Teleuts]]|| 2,700 
|-
|[[Crimean Karaites]]|| 2,000 || [[Karaite Judaism]]
|-
|[[Tubalar]] || 1,900 || [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]], [[Shamanism in Siberia|shamanism]]
|-
|[[Fuyu Kyrgyz people|Fuyu Kyrgyz]]|| 1,400 || [[Sunni Islam]]
|-
|[[Chelkans]] || 1,100 || [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]], [[Burkhanism]], [[Shamanism in Siberia|shamanism]]
|-
|[[Krymchaks]]|| 1,000 || [[Orthodox Judaism]]
|-
|[[Tofalar]]s|| 800 || [[Tengrism]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]]
|-
|[[Chulyms]]|| 355 || [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]]
|-
|[[Dukha]]||282 || [[Tengrism]]
|-
|[[Ili Turks]]|| 177 || [[Sunni Islam]]
|}

; Historical Turkic groups
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* [[Az (people)|Az]]
* [[Dingling]]
* [[Bulgars]]
* [[Esegel]]
* [[Barsils]]
* [[Alat tribe|Alat]]
* [[Basmyl]]
* [[Onogurs]]
* [[Saragurs]]
* [[Sabirs]]
* [[Shatuo]]
* [[Ongud]] (from Shatuo)
* [[Göktürks]]
* [[Oghuz Turks]]
* [[Kangly]]s
* [[Kabar]]
* [[Khazars]]
* [[Kipchaks]]
* [[Kurykans]]
* [[Kumans]]
* [[Pechenegs]]
* [[Karluks]]
* [[Tiele people|Tiele]]
* [[Turgesh]]
* [[Tukhsi]]
* [[Yenisei Kirghiz]]
* [[Chigils]]
* [[Toquz Oghuz]]
* [[Uyghur Khaganate|Orkhon Uyghurs]]
* [[Yagma]]
* [[Nushibi]]
* [[Duolu]]
* [[Kutrigurs]]
* [[Utigurs]]
* [[Yabaku]]
* [[Yueban]]{{NoteTag|[[Book of Wei]] [https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%AD%8F%E6%9B%B8/%E5%8D%B7102#%E7%83%8F%E5%AD%AB-%E7%96%8F%E5%8B%92-%E6%82%85%E8%88%AC vol. 102.] quote: "悅般國 [...] 其風俗言語與高車同" translation: "Yueban nation [...] Their customs and language are the same as the Gaoche['s]"; Gaoche (高車; lit. "High-Carts") was another name of the Turkic-speaking Tiele}}
* [[Bulaqs]]
* [[Xueyantuo]]
* [[Torks]]
* [[Chorni Klobuky]]
* [[Berendei]]
* [[Yemek]]s
* [[Naimans]] (partly)
* [[Keraites]] (partly)<ref name="grousset">
R. Grousset, ''The Empire of the Steppes'', New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1970, p191.
</ref><ref>
Moffett, ''A History of Christianity in Asia'' pp. 400-401.
</ref> 
* [[Merkits]] (partly){{NoteTag|Merkits were always counted as a part of the Mongols within the Mongol Empire, however, some scholars proposed additional Turkic ancestry for Merkits; Christopher P. Atwood – ''Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire'' {{ISBN|978-0-8160-4671-3}}, Facts on File, Inc. 2004.}}
* [[Uriankhai]] (partly){{NoteTag|Refers to forest peoples of the North, including the Turkic-speaking [[Tuvans]] and [[Yakuts]], and also Mongolic-speaking [[Altai Uriankhai]]. The ethnonym Uriankhai is etymologically Mongolic, compare [[Khalkha Mongolian|Khalkha]] ''uria(n)'' "war motto" and ''khai'', [[Alternation (linguistics)|alternation]] of ''[[Khan (title)|khan]]''. Uriankhai people are possibly linked to the Wuluohun tribe of the [[Shiwei people]], who were predominantly Mongolic-speaking.}}

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These groups were of possible Proto-Turkic ancestry, the [[Tuoba]] and [[Rouran]], who were of [[Proto-Mongols|Proto-Mongolic]] [[Donghu people|Donghu]] ancestry.<ref>*Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (2000). [https://web.archive.org/web/20171118181857/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~earlychina/docs/2008/ec25_pulleyblank.pdf "Ji 姬 and Jiang 姜: The Role of Exogamic Clans in the Organization of the Zhou Polity"], ''Early China''. p. 20</ref><ref>[[Wei Shou]]. ''[[Book of Wei]]''. Vol. 1</ref><ref>{{cite thesis|type= PhD|last= Tseng|first= Chin Yin|title= The Making of the Tuoba Northern Wei: Constructing Material Cultural Expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng Period (398–494 CE)|year= 2012|publisher= University of Oxford|page= 1}}</ref><ref>[[Wei Shou]]. ''[[Book of Wei]]''. vol. 91 "蠕蠕，東胡之苗裔也，姓郁久閭氏。" tr. "Rúrú, offsprings of Dōnghú, surnamed Yùjiŭlǘ"</ref> as well as [[Tatar confederation|Tatars]], Rourans' supposed descendants.<ref>''[[Book of Song]]''. vol 95. "芮芮一號大檀，又號檀檀，亦匈奴別種" tr. "Ruìruì, one appellation is Dàtán, also called Tántán, likewise a Xiōngnú splinter stock"</ref><ref>Xu Elina-Qian, [https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/19205 ''Historical Development of the Pre-Dynastic Khitan''], University of Helsinki, 2005. p. 179-180</ref>{{NoteTag|Even though Chinese historians routinely ascribed Xiongnu origin to various nomadic peoples, such ascriptions do not necessarily indicate the subjects' exact origins; for examples, Xiongnu ancestry was ascribed to Turkic-speaking Göktürks and Tiele as well as Para-Mongolic-speaking Kumo Xi and Khitan.<ref>{{cite journal|first= Joo-Yup|last= Lee|title= The Historical Meaning of the Term Turk and the Nature of the Turkic Identity of the Chinggisid and Timurid Elites in Post-Mongol Central Asia|journal= Central Asiatic Journal |volume=59 |issue=1–2|page= 105|year= 2016}}</ref>}}

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