Statistics for Ethnic Groups and Languages of Russia - Turkic and Mongolic

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Language Family - Group	Language	Ethnic Group	Number	Republic (or other)	% Correct
Turkic	Tatar	Volga Tatars	5,3 million	Tatarstan	95%
Turkic	Kazakh	Kazakhs	650.000	Border to Kazakhstan	79%
Turkic - Siberian Turkic	Yakut / Sakha	Yakuts / Sakha people	480.000	Sakha (aka Yakutia)	76%
Turkic	Bashkir	Bashkirs	1,6 million	Bashkortostan	75%
Mongolic	Buryat	Buryats	460.000	Buryatia	74%
Turkic	Chuvash	Chuvash people	1,5 million	Chuvashia	73%
Turkic	Uzbek	Uzbeks	290.000 (or many more)	Moscow, more	72%
Turkic	Turkmen	Turkmens	37.000	Stavropol Krai	70%
Mongolic	Kalmyk Oirat	Kalmyks	180.000	Kalmykia	69%
Turkic	Kyrgyz	Kyrgyz people	100.000		69%
Turkic	Azerbaijani aka Azeri	Azerbaijanis aka Azeris	600.000	Border to Azerbaijan	67%
Turkic	Crimean Tatar	Crimean Tatars	2400 (excl. Crimea)		66%
Turkic - Siberian Turkic	Altai	Altai people	75.000	Altai	64%
Turkic - Siberian Turkic	Tuvan	Tuvans	260.000	Tuva	63%
Turkic	Meskhetian Turkish dialect	Meskhetian/Ahiska Turks	100.000	Krasnodar Krai	62%
Turkic	Nogai	Nogais	100.000	Dagestan	50%
Turkic - Siberian Turkic	Khakas	Khakas people	70.000	Khakassia	45%
Turkic	Karachay dialect of Karachay-Balkar	Karachays	220.000	Karachay-Cherkessia	41%
Turkic	Balkar dialect of Karachay-Balkar	Balkars	110.000	Kabardino-Balkaria	40%
Turkic	Kumyk	Kumyks	500.000	Dagestan	40%
Turkic - Siberian Turkic	Dolgan	Dolgans	8000	Krasnoyarsk Krai	21%
Turkic - Siberian Turkic	Shor (minority)	Shors	13.000	Kemerovo Oblast	18%
Turkic - Siberian Turkic	Teleut dialect of Southern Altai	Teleuts	2600	Kemerovo Oblast	8%
Turkic	Kumandi dialect of Northern Altai	Kumandins	2800	Altai	5%
Turkic	Tatar	Nağaybäk	8000	Chelyabinsk Oblast	4%