Mongolian people and did not originally speak a Turkic language.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 13 The Establishment of New Empires in Central Asia] Reference

It took me a minute or so, but when I saw "Turkic" and the letter "o," I quickly started thinking of cities that start with "u.".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: EARLY SOVIET CHILDREN'S BOOKS.] Reference

The Uighurs are a Turkic people, so that makes sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2009] Reference

Pashtu 35\%, Afghan Persian (Dari) 50\%, Turkic languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

The Qarluqs were a Turkic group living northwest of Ngari.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 2 The Struggle for Religious Survival after the Fall of the Tibetan Empire] Reference

The two Turkic groups shared the same language and culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Early Period of Buddhism and Bon in Tibet ��� 2 From Emperor Tri Songdetsen to the Eleventh-Century Revival of Buddhism] Reference

Persian and Persian dialects 58\%, Turkic and Turkic dialects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

The Turki Shahis were a Turkic people descended from the Kushans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in Afghanistan] Reference

Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Mongol (mostly Khalkha) 94. 9\%, Turkic (mostly Kazakh) 5\%, other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Turkic brethren in the former Soviet Union lend some moral support.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charting The Deng Revolution] Reference

Persian and Persian dialects 58\%, Turkic and Turkic dialects 26\%.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

The earliest Turkic people to adopt Buddhism were the Turki Shahis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddhism among the Turkic People] Reference

Pashtu (official) 35\%, Afghan Persian (Dari) 50\%, Turkic languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Languages: Pashtu 35\%, Afghan Persian (Dari) 50\%, Turkic languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference

The Armenian lobby would love to see America's ties to the Turkic world weakened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Boxer (D., Armenia)] Reference

The region's Turkic inhabitants avoided complete Chinese control until the 19th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uses Of The Past] Reference

Having opened Anatolia to Turkic settlement, the Seljuqs went on to take Palestine as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 18 The Ghaznavids and Seljuqs] Reference

The religious practices of the Orkhon Turkic rebels are not clear, but they were not Muslims.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis)] Reference

The Samanids enslaved the Turkic tribesmen in their realm and conscripted them in their armies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in Afghanistan] Reference

Background: In 1806, Azerbaijan, a region of Turkic Muslim people, was conquered by the Russians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

The most prominent Turkic form of Buddhism, however, was with the Uighur people of East Turkistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddhism among the Turkic People] Reference

Uzbekistan: Despite fierce resistance, this Mongol-Turkic land was subdued by the Bolsheviks in 1924.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Multinational Empire] Reference

First, the Turks lost Bactria to the Turki Shahis, another Turkic Buddhist people who were ruling Gandhara.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 1 The Spread of Buddhism in Central Asia and Adjacent Regions before the Advent of the Arabs] Reference

The last Turkic group to adopt Buddhism were the people of Tuva, in present-day Siberia, just north of western Mongolia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddhism among the Turkic People] Reference

Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population - regained its independence after the collapse of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Languages: Pashtu 35\%, Afghan Persian (Dari) 50\%, Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11\%, 30 minor languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

Pashtu (official) 35\%, Afghan Persian (Dari) 50\%, Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11\%, 30 minor languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11\%, 30 minor languages (primarily Balochi and Pashai) 4\%, much bilingualism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Native Kazakhs, a mix of Turkic and Mongol nomadic tribes who migrated into the region in the 13th century, were rarely united as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Languages: Persian and Persian dialects 58\%, Turkic and Turkic dialects 26\%, Kurdish 9\%, Luri 2\%, Balochi 1\%, Arabic 1\%, Turkish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

Background: Azerbaijan - a nation of Turkic Muslims - has been an independent republic since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference