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Altaic Languages, family of 65 languages spoken by about 167 million people in around 23 different countries, in a vast area of Eurasia extending from Turkey in the west to the Sea of Okhotsk in the east. It consists of three main subfamilies or groups: Turkic (by far the largest), Mongolic, and Tungus.

Foremost among the Turkic languages is Turkish or Osmanli (Turkey, the Balkans) spoken by about 50 million people in Turkey and surrounding areas. Other Turkic languages include Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan and north-western Iran), Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, and Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan), Tatar (Turkey, the Balkans, the former USSR, and China), Uighur (Sinkiang-Uighur Autonomous Region, China), and Yakut (mainly north-eastern Siberia). The Mongolic languages include Buriat (Mongolia, China, Russia), Kalmyk-Oirat (chiefly the Kalmykia autonomous region), and the most widely spoken of the group, Mongolian (Mongolia, Russia, China). Among the Tungus group, Manchu (Dongbei in China) had the