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Tungus
[ toong-gooz ]
noun
- any member of a Tungusic-speaking people.
Tungus
/ ˈtʊŋɡʊs /
noun
- -guses-gus a member of a formerly nomadic Mongoloid people of E Siberia
- Also calledEvenki the language of this people, belonging to the Tungusic branch of the Altaic family
Word History and Origins
Origin of Tungus1
Example Sentences
The government of Russia under the Czars could not be bothered to investigate so trivial an event, which, after all, had occurred far away, among the backward Tungus people of Siberia.
The Tunguses consider the after-birth cooked or roasted as a great delicacy.
The farther we go to the East the more they resemble the Yellow race, and the Buriats and Tunguses of Trans-Baikalia are hardly to be distinguished from the Chinese.
Reasons have already been advanced for supposing that the Chukchi were a Tungus people who came originally from the Amur basin.
They talked without animation; jokes and laughter, so beloved by the Tungus, were checked by a general sense of depression, and only rarely indulged in.
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