page_title: Turkic peoples
hierarchical_section_title: Turkic peoples
caption_attribution_description: English: Haplogroup N (Y-DNA) distribution Español: Distribución del haplogrupo N (ADN-Y) en poblaciones nativas
context_page_description: The Turkic peoples are a group thought to have originated between eastern Central Asia and Manchuria in northeastern China. Today they live mostly in Northern and Central Eurasia.
  Turkic people speak languages belonging to the Turkic family. A Turkic person is called a Turk.
  There are Turks in many places. They dominate modern Central Asia and Siberia, there are also many in the Caucasus area, Middle East, and Eastern Europe.
  There are also some in Pakistan and India, but are intermixed with the local people, like the Muhajir group in Pakistan.
  The Xinglongwa culture in Manchuria, in northeastern China, along the Liao river is the proposed homeland of the proto-Turks. From their they expanded into Siberia, the Altai mountains, see Altai people, and than Central Asia, were they replaced and partially assimilated to local population. They are an East Asian people.
context_section_description: The Turkic peoples are a group thought to have originated between eastern Central Asia and Manchuria in northeastern China. Today they live mostly in Northern and Central Eurasia.
  Turkic people speak languages belonging to the Turkic family. A Turkic person is called a Turk (e.g. the Kazakh Turks, the Kyrgyz Turks, etc., or in historical context: the Seljuq Turks, the Timurid Turks etc). 
  There are Turks in many places. They dominate modern Central Asia and Siberia, there are also many in the Caucasus area, Middle East, and Eastern Europe.  
  There are also some in Pakistan and India, but are intermixed with the local people, like the Muhajir group in Pakistan.
  The Xinglongwa culture in Manchuria, in northeastern China, along the Liao river is the proposed homeland of the proto-Turks. From their they expanded into Siberia, the Altai mountains, see Altai people, and than Central Asia, were they replaced and partially assimilated to local population. They are an East Asian people.
caption: Haplogroup N is linked to the proto-Turkic people and their expansion from Northeast Asia.
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