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Ethno-linguistic groups of people found primarily in Eastern Asia. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Koreanic peoples are a collection of ethnic groups of East, who speak Koreanic languages.
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Total population | |
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Approx. 77 million | |
Regions with significant populations | |
South Korea | 51000000~52000000 |
North Korea | 25000000~26000000 |
Jeju | 670000~680000 |
Languages | |
Koreanic languages | |
Religion | |
The origins of the Koreanic peoples has been a topic of much discussion.[1] Recent linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest Koreanic peoples descended from agricultural communities in Northeast China who moved westwards into Manchuria in the late 3rd millennium BC, where they adopted a pastoral lifestyle. By the early 1st millennium BC, these peoples had become agrarian. In subsequent centuries, the steppe populations of Korean peninsula appear to have been progressively Turkified by a heterogenous Chinese dominant minority moving out of Manchuria. Many vastly differing ethnic groups have throughout history become part of the Koreanic peoples through language shift, acculturation, intermixing, adoption and religious conversion. Nevertheless, certain Koreanic peoples share, to varying degrees, non-linguistic characteristics like cultural traits, ancestry from a common gene pool, and historical experiences.[2]
The most notable modern Koreanic-speaking ethnic groups include Koreans.