The Tuvans or Tuvinians (Tuvan: Тывалар Tyvalar; Mongolian: Tuva Uriankhai) are a Turkic ethnic group living in southern Siberia. They are historically known as one of the Uriankhai from the Mongolian designation. Tuvans’ recent ethnic history is rooted in Mongol Turkic and Samoyedic groups of peoples.Tuvans have historically been cattle-herding nomads tending to their herds of goats sheep camels reindeer cattle and yaks for the past thousands of years.
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