Altai tribes

Japanese: アルタイ諸族 - あるたいしょぞく
Altai tribes

...the general term for the peoples who speak the languages ​​that make up the Altaic language family (Altaic languages). Also called the Altai peoples, it is originally a linguistic group concept based on the Altaic language theory proposed by Stralenberg in the mid-18th century. They are distributed over a very wide area, centered in the central part of the Eurasian continent (at one time the Altai region was thought to be their original homeland), from the western tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east to the Balkan Peninsula in the west, and from northern Siberia in the north to southwestern China in the south.

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Altai peoples" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…アルタイ語族を構成する諸言語(アルタイ諸語)を話す民族の総称。アルタイ諸族ともいい,元来,18世紀半ばにストラレンベルクが提唱したアルタイ語族説にもとづく言語学的集団概念である。その分布はユーラシア大陸の中央部(一時はアルタイ地方が原郷と考えられていた)を中心にして,東はカムチャツカ半島西端から西はバルカン半島まで,北はシベリア北部から南は中国南西部まで,きわめて広い範囲に及ぶ。…

※「アルタイ諸族」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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