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#REDIRECT [[Altaic (disambiguation)]]
'''Altaic peoples''' are the peoples who speak [[Altaic languages]]. The existence of the Altaic language family as a genetically related group is controversial, and that of Altaic peoples even more so.
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==Linguistic subdivisions==
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*[[Turkic peoples|Turkics]] (about 150 million speakers: [[Central Asia]], [[North Asia]], the [[Caucasus]], [[Asia Minor]], and small groups scattered around [[Eastern Europe]])
*[[Mongols]] (about 9 million speakers: [[Central Asia]], [[North Asia]], and the north [[Caucasus]])
*[[Tungusic peoples|Tungus]] (about 63,000 speakers and endangered: [[North Asia]])
