Ethnolinguistic groups in asia

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  • Ethnicity is being part of a group with members who have a common language, share the same beliefs, traits, traditions, and have the same ancestors
  • Something in common between these countries is that they were all under control by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
  • Larger portions of Russians are Slavs. They were the first inhabitants of East Asia. Their language is called Slavic
  • Turkic spoke Turkic language. Thought they have different ways of living, majority of them are muslims
  • Paleosiberian are located in the colder parts where they hunt and live by having reindeers and sleds
  • East Asia mostly have the same physical features and same color skin
  • Han chinese who started the Chinese Civilization in the yellow river. Sino-Tibetan was one of the languages that were used
  • Japanese lived through fishing and farming and Ainu was onenof the tribes in Japan
  • Koreans had their own Ethnic groups. Goguryeo in the north and Silla and Baekje in the south
  • Most southeast asians have yellow-ish to brown skin color and jet black hair. Most of the ancestors came from south of China
  • In West Asia, Arab peninsula was prominent during the old times. Aside from the Arabs, the Jews were also prominent in West Asia
  • What is USSR? Union of Soviet Socialist Republics