Dingling

The Dingling were an ancient people who appears in Chinese historiography in the context of the 1st century BCE.

For the writer, see Ding Ling. For the tomb, see Dingling (Ming).
The Dingling and contemporary Asian polities circa 100 BCE.

The Dingling are considered to have been an early Turkic-speaking people. They were also proposed to be the ancestors of Tungusic speakers among the later Shiwei people, or are related to Na-Dené and Yeniseian speakers.

Modern archaeologists have identified the Dingling as belonging to the eastern Scythian horizon, namely the Tagar culture.

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