• The proto-Mongols emerged from an area that had been inhabited by humans as far back as 45,000 years ago during the Upper Paleolithic. The people there...
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  • Proto-Mongolic is the hypothetical ancestor language of the modern Mongolic languages. It is very close to the Middle Mongol language, the language spoken...
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    Mongols are referred to as Proto-Mongols. Broadly defined, the term includes the Mongols proper (also known as the Khalkha Mongols), Buryats, Oirats, the...
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    with the language spoken by the Mongols during Genghis Khan's early expansion in the 1200-1210s. Pre-Proto-Mongolic, by contrast, is a continuum that...
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    speak Mongolic languages. Their ancestors are referred to as Proto-Mongols. The largest contemporary Mongolic ethnic group is the Mongols. Mongolic-speaking...
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  • Common Serbi–Mongolic (i.e., Proto-Serbi–Mongolic) to Proto-Mongolic and Proto-Serbi are (Shimunek 2017:415): Xianbei also known as Mongolic–Khitan, Mongolo-Khitanic...
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    killed together with the 70 Chinos princes List of Mongol states List of modern Mongol clans Proto-Mongols Zubu Shiwei Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Jami' al-tawarikh...
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    from the proto-Mongols through the Xianbei, Khitans spoke the now-extinct Khitan language, a Para-Mongolic language related to the Mongolic languages...
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    Buryats (redirect from Mongols in Siberia)
    traditionally formed the major northern subgroup of the Mongols. Buryats share many customs with other Mongols, including nomadic herding, and erecting gers for...
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    on an optional basis for less official writing. The Xianbei spoke a proto-Mongolic language and wrote down several pieces of literature in their language...
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  • thus becoming known as Turco-Mongols. These elites gradually adopted Islam, as well as Turkic languages, while retaining Mongol political and legal institutions...
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    Mongols in China, also known as Mongolian Chinese, are ethnic Mongols who live in China. They are one of the 56 ethnic groups recognized by the Chinese...
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    the Khalkha Mongols. There were also numerous direct descendants of Genghis Khan who had formed the ruling class of the Khalkha Mongols prior to the...
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    Mongolia (redirect from Mongol Uls)
    repelled by the Mongols under Ayushridar and his general Köke Temür. After the expulsion of the Yuan rulers from China proper, the Mongols continued to rule...
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    Kublaids became Yuan emperors, who took on a dual identity of Khagan for the Mongols and Huangdi for ethnic Han. Batu Khan (1227–1255) Sartaq (1255–56) Ulaghchi...
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    unsuitable for the mounted warfare of the Mongols. The Trần dynasty which ruled Annam (Đại Việt) defeated the Mongols at the Battle of Bạch Đằng (1288). Annam...
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    Oirats (redirect from Oirat Mongols)
    Manchu-Mongol alliance (a series of systematic arranged marriages between princes and princesses of Manchu with those of Khalkha Mongols and Oirat Mongols,...
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    Tatar confederation (category Mongol states)
    then be transferred to all Mongols. However, Bartold, Ushnitsky, Klyashtorny, Theobald, and Pow notice that even ethnic Mongols were often called Tatars...
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    Xianbei (category Mongol peoples)
    confederation consisting of mainly Proto-Mongols (who spoke either Pre-Proto-Mongolic, or Proto-Mongolic and Para-Mongolic), and, to a minor degree, Tungusic...
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  • (2003a). "Proto-Mongolic". In Janhunen, J. (ed.). The Mongolic languages. Routledge. ISBN 9780700711338. Janhunen, Juha (2003b). "Para-Mongolic". In Janhunen...
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  • and 1424. Mongols remained powerful even after the fall of the Yuan dynasty but number of the Mongols decreased due to the fall of the Mongol Empire, wars...
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    Yisüngge, and by the Secret History of the Mongols, written in 1228 (see Mongolic languages). The earliest Para-Mongolic text is the Memorial for Yelü Yanning...
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  • Xianbei, Jinggouzi and Rouran, which are described as either Proto-Mongols or Para-Mongols. While often being referred as tribal confederation, they may...
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    was a tribal confederation and later state founded by a people of Proto-Mongolic Donghu origin. The Rouran supreme rulers used the title of khagan, a...
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    help from Yesugei, the ruler of the Khamag Mongol, to dethrone his brothers among the Keraites, the Mongols helped him defeat the Keraite leaders and put...
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    northern branch of the earlier Donghu and it is likely at least some were proto-Mongols. After it collapsed, the tribe immigrated into the Central Plain and...
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  • Turkic-speakers very early on. Craig Benjamin sees the Xiongnu as either proto-Turks or proto-Mongols who possibly spoke a language related to the Dingling. Chinese...
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    Mongolian language (category Central Mongolic languages)
    language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau. It is spoken by ethnic Mongols and other closely related Mongolic peoples who...
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    Ilkhanate (redirect from Ilkhanid Mongols)
    the Mongols as heirs to the Sasanian Empire (224–651). Native intellectuals interested in their own history interpreted the unification by the Mongols as...
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    Hazaras." Over the centuries, various Mongol (Turco-Mongol) and Turkic groups, notably the Qara'unas, Chagatai Turco-Mongols, Ilkhanate, and Timurids, merged...
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