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Oirats

Tribe
Oirats or Oirds, also formerly Eluts and Eleuths, are the westernmost group of the Mongols whose ancestral home is in the Altai region of Siberia, Xinjiang and western Mongolia. The first documented reference to Elut and Yelut was in the Onginsk... Wikipedia
Languages spoken: Chinese, Russian, Kalmyk Oirat, and more
China (mainly in Xinjiang): 250,000 (2013 estimate)
Kyrgyzstan: 12,000 (2018)
Russia: 183,372 (2010 census)