5 Minute Kalmyk History Lesson

5 Minute Kalmyk History Lesson with Young Turquoise Bee

[@etloo1971]

A Kalmyk Buddhist monk came and established a large Vajrayana Temple in Malaysia. He's known as Tsem Rinponche.

[@WaMo721]

May H.E reincarnate soon🙏💐🌷🌸

[@latin1989]

Mongolian from all over the world, we love you, and respect you, we need to protect the culture and language, religious as well. 😘

[@kagadaza07]

I am a Native Hawaiian. I value learning about other cultures. Native peoples share a lot of commonalities Thank for sharing information about your culture. Aloha from Hawaii.

[@kalmyklegacy433]

Hi folks! Thank you for taking an interest in this topic. I did receive a comment on Instagram that I would like to share with you. Someone said that Kalmyks were sent to Siberia because they complied with the Nazis and joined their army and I wanted to respond to this on here as well. Whenever I present information I want to be accurate so I reached out to a contact in Elista who is a specialist in this area. According to his research there were Kalmyks who did join the Nazi army but what is documented as the reason for Kalmyks being deported to Siberia is noted in the Special Order of Mr. Kalinin who was the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In his order it is written that Kalmyks would steal sheep and not give their horses to the Red army and did not show support therefore Kalmyks were sent to Siberia. It is quite complicated because there are Kalmyks who fought for the Red army and also Kalmyks who fought for the Nazis. There was never a case where there was 100% Kalmyk participation on one side. But my contact did say that there is no historical proof that the reason Kalmyks were deported was because some of them complied and worked with the Nazis. In my own research I find this to be true bc when I was in Kalmykia I also interviewed families from different Asian backgrounds who were Korean for example who were rounded up just for the fact that they were Asian. Best, YTB

[@solongohijikata1032]

You are very beautiful God bless you

[@bachka2790]

Do any of you still speak the Kalmyk language?

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

many kalmyks fought for the germans in ww2 when communisim came to russia many kalmyks were killed as them and the cossacks were unwilling to submit to communisim.. lenin himself was of kalmyk decent so i dint know what that played in their presecution... but the communists even in 1922 viewed kalmyks as a hostile nationality.. many kalmyks and russians escaped to serbia and romania and france after the civil. war.. there was a buddhist temple in serbia built by these refugees.. kalmykian people were very antisoviet and most hated communisim. many joind the germans in ww2 and just as with cossacks the nazis recruitmed kalmyks living in europewho inturn rallied many kalmyk troops in the ussr. kalmyks had no reason to love the ussr..at the end of ww2 some sympathetic germans mades ure some of their kalmyk troops wereable to escape repatriation to the ussr.. many of these kalmyks live in germany for some years until getting permission to go to the u.s.a.. i had a german relative who fought with the kalmyks in ww2 know diseased) andhe says d they were verygood troops and loyal, unlike the caucascans who joind.. (chechens, ingush, balkars ect) they taught him how to use a shashka and sabre on horse and perform cuts and flanking with a shashka on foot.. some of the older men had been lancers in ww1 and were still skilled with using a lance or even a bayonet on horseback and could pick up apples with the tip. from the ground as they rode by..

[@thekuchchannel]

I'm Kalmyk and Puerto Rican rock musician/composer living in NYC. I look forward to more videos from you. All may feel free to reply and say hello as well.

[@TATANKA-nf4ck]

カルムイク人とプエルトリコ人のハーフは珍しい！アメリカらしいといえばアメリカらしいけど。

[@byzer1]

I would say, you invaders go back to Europe, I hope to see a free and independent native nations in the American continent.

[@schenjakov231]

💛💙💛 From a Kalmyk-German-Mix born in Kalmykia (Bashanta) living in Germany.💛💙💛

[@Buggy-cw2cj]

I’m half German and Kalmyk living in Nevada. My grandmother was deported to Siberia. I was born in Munich Germany in 1949 and came to US around 1951.

[@munkhuutsoros7596]

Hello I’m Dzungar living in xinjiang

[@bustereagal3570]

You Are The Most Beautiful & Elegant Lady I Have Ever Seen In My Entire Life God Bless All The Kalmyks & All The Other Mongolian Peoples I Love The Soviet Peoples & The Eurasian Cultures Greetings From Your Fellow Black African Hamitic Nomads Of Africa 🌍🐘🐫🐪🐺🦅🐴🐎🐮🐄🐃🐂🐶🐕🦌🦊🐯🐅🐏🐑🐐⚔️🛡️🏹

[@asofu720]

Hey, I'm Mongolian - was just checking up for my Kalmykian brothers and sisters :) thanks for the info!

[@JanYi2023]

look no further we are here

[@baljinnyamsumiya5774]

Kalmyk people were ethnic Torguud, Dorwod, Oold, Zahchin, Bayd etc; initially moving to west from Mongolia. Thank you for the video.

[@2Bpatient]

WOW Thanks for the info . I am Kalmyck lots family in Phily and jersey grew up speaking Kalmyck i live in Canada i have been away 30 years trying to teach my 2 kids there history keep up good work 👍🦾

[@tonysamsenthaikhambaoxaych8507]

2020 Kalmyk brothers and sisters ♡ love and respect ♡ from tai-lao brother

[@archazriel]

Tashi delek from the West coast, thank you so much for making this. As a Tibetan, I have found Kalmyk history fascinating without many good resources. Thank you as well for helping inspire me to keep up my work on Tibetan history. In short yes more please.

[@kalmyklegacy433]

Thanks so much. I appreciate you watching. English Resources for Kalmyk history are difficult but not impossible. I would recommend any works by Elza Bair Guchinova, some of which are available to download online. Mikhail Khodarkovsky's book is also a good resource and is available on Amazon. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens also has a chapter on the Kalmyks, but much like other larger books about Mongolian history the Kalmyk chapter can be quite short. Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR by J Otto Pohl and Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR by Pavel Polian are also good references.

[@AKumar528]

I'm fascinated by the Kalmyks !!

[@ddz1375]

my father's family we're one of the first people's to invest in the buying of the land in New Jersey to make the temple. also built one in Philadelphia. I'm first generation and my mother was German so I was not allowed to speak or learn either language. it was the American or nothing. thank you for your concise and informative video

[@ddz1375]

I feel the need to add an addendum. back in the seventies when the Dalai Lama came to bless the temple in New Jersey. I must have been about seven or eight years old and there was a line of monks going all the way to his holiness I was so nervous that I was afraid to give my dollar to each monk or llama who was in the lineup. I wound up saving it to the last guy and it turned out to be his Holiness the Dalai Lama. to this day I remember the smile on his face and the joy in his heart as he took my dollar and blessed it and bleed hands on me and blessed me and gave me my white scarf. it was a blessing to be blessed and I am still honored to this day the hoops my father had to go through to be an eligible citizen of the United States was what made me respect him the most. he was in the displaced persons camps in Germany and as a 15-year-old boy he was in charge of his whole family. the stories or iffy and I'd love to find out more information. thank you for your post and the little history lesson. Alexander Erenzin Zagadinow was his name. he was born in 1931.

[@byzer1]

It was English!! America is a continent and you're invaders.. Freedom to the native Americans nations..

[@djt9846]

Halun Mend ! Great information as always , and keep doing your good job .

[@mellowyellowlemon7270]

I’m Tibetan :) love learning of Mongols and related culture history.

[@ericloo6576]

I heard about Kalmyk from Tsem Rinponche . His was adopted by a Kalmyk couple living in NJ. Tsem Rinponche became a famous lama teaching in Malaysia.

[@WaMo721]

Kalmyk-tibetan

[@mustukulteddy2292]

Omg 50 years ago my grandma used to make some kind a tea. And she named that tea KALMYK TEA. Btw I’m north Caucasian Karachai. I was looking for recipe of that tea.

[@ArtistSquadMGL]

Black tea.

[@monicamungun5606]

is it milk tea with black tea

[@baehongkim952]

Glad to know Kalmykia. I am Korean. Your features look like Korean. Kalmyk people, Mongolians and Koreans have the same ethnic root.

[@baehongkim952]

@LanguagesPro glad to hear from you :)

[@antman4831]

입 닥쳐 웃긴소리 하지마

[@rajanikanthnk7511]

Strength . Courage and love Sister 👍👍

[@user-sz8lp2tj5x]

I was in Elista two weeks ago. Great city.

[@olaxonmario]

I loved this video! I would love to see more videos about kalmyk language and culture, great video!

[@ochirsukh.mosgar5525]

I am Mongolian Torgud. Greetings from Mongolia

[@amolootieno-pala2129]

I'd like to find out more about Kalmyk history. I have some Kalmyk friends and from watching this, I realise how little I know about Kalmykia.

[@anwi5290]

Much Love from India ❤️

[@markus_park]

Good job! It was a very informative video. Still, I think that it would be good to mention the history of Kalmyks when they settled in the area now known as Kalmykia. I myself am an American of Kazakh descent and find it interesting doing researches on history. Turns out the Dzunghars (aka the oirats who didn't migrate to Kalmykia) had very close contact with neighboring Kazakhs. Anyways, thanks for sharing this video! 😁😁

[@AnujinMolomjamts]

Jungaria(Oirat dialect Mongolian language) Zuungar(Khalkha dialect Mongolian Language) means Left wing, Left hand. Thanks for the nice introductory video.

[@zoyafroloff4755]

Dechen, it is such a beautiful informative video - thank you! ❤️

[@kalmyklegacy433]

Thanks Zoya!!

[@ronnwoo8122]

I Am From Mongolia..... We are Brothers and Sisters still

[@beverlyphillips8572]

Thank you for your fascinating video on a people whom I had never heard of before and I'm in my 70's! But how grateful I am to have learned of them and saw this video. I first heard of the Kalmyk's though a dance video I watched and was so fascinated with it that I've watched it over and over and then went to Google Translator so I could learn where the dance came from. The title of it in English is "Kalmyk Dance 2023 Ballet by Igor Moiseev."

[@pokya-anakrantau8845]

I'm still waiting for next video about Kalmyk History, you did a really good job on this video

[@x-ulus3924]

Great job!

[@baatrmandzhiev3214]

Mendvt, thank you for the video. It is a good idea. You may have more information about the geneology of Oirat Kalmyks living in Russia in the group called "Oirat Kalmyk geneology" on FB. This is not an ad, this is a welcoming message to those who seek for their relatives.

[@gungaadorjaltanchuluun8248]

Мендвт! Би тиигән орҗ болx?

[@BlueSky-jp8el]

Thank you Dechen!!! Good job!)

[@kalmyklegacy433]

Thanks so much Ayur! I appreciate it =)

[@kanzenmaslankowski4104]

Hi, of course it is very interesting, not only due to the recent history of the XX century, but generally the history of Kalmyk settlement in Europe is just very interesting. Including reasons for which this tribe of Mongols left Western Mongolia, and the history of their way to Europe and early stages of the state as we know it now. Please go on with your valuable work. Thank you :)

[@jeffreysung1794]

I enjoy your history lesson very much

[@valdasendriulaitis50]

As a Lithuanian who’s county experienced the same horrors of Stalin’s communist mass deportations and genocide like Kalmykia , I can relate to to Kalmyk History during WWII and the post-war horrors that came with the return of soviet communist domination. The men in my family in the 1941 German invasion joined the National uprising against Stalin and went on to join the German army to destroy communism forever. . My father served as a Volunteer in German Gen. Von Manstein’s army group south in Ukraine, and the Don Cossack region where as a truck driver he got to meet men of the Kalmyk cavalry corps who’s hatred for Stalin and his communist matched his so perfectly. I 🙏that one day Kalmykia too will be a free and independent nation of Europe !

[@byzer1]

I pray for apache, Comanche and all of the native nations of the American continent to get freedom from the horrors of US aka European invaders, hopefully one day 🙏

[@jkjkjk100]

Kalmykia are buddhist. Swastika are a common buddhist symbols. They got deported probably because of that similar to internment of japanese in america. It’s a sad history but without the soviets WW2 will not end. America didn’t win the WW2, the red army did.

[@prismpyre7653]

this certainly has renewed relevance

[@DewyPeters96]

Much love from a Georgian-Ukrainian-Cornishman living in the Netherlands ❤️ Do you know where to find resources for learning the Kalmyk language (either from English or Russian)? I would like to dabble in the Mongolic languages in the future...

[@demchigdoyod7917]

Сайхан түүх сонслоо Халмаг түмэнд их баярлалаа

[@anatolymayburd5205]

Good work!

[@luddned7351]

First Buddhist temple in Europe was built by Kalmyks in my neighborhood in Belgrade! Kalmykians had an interesting chapter here in Serbia between the two wars, sadly our communist goverment demolished the temple circa 1950 after your people immigrated westwards before the Red Army. There was a Kalmyk school somewhere around here, also another today's urban neighborhood got its name after the horses Kamyks kept there at the time - "Konjarnik"... That is all thats left and a couple of mixed chidren they say, as proof we were kind neighbors. I'm going to visit Elista with two friends for a week sometime by the end of next month, could you possibly recommend something, someplace or someone to see other than litte stuff available on the internet. We do know a tiny bit of Russian to get around but I fear how we might miss on something awesome and so be deprived of better understanding the spirit of Kalmykia :)

[@prajnaseek]

I was planning to move to Russia, possibly Sochi or St. Petersberg, but after learning about Kalmikya, and finding out it is very rural, remote, and peaceful, and a Buddhist republic, best of all, Kalmykia is now my top choice for relocating (from Canada). Thank you for the informative video!

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

ah kalmykia is pretty corrupt and bleak.. its run by a kalmyk kickboxer.. friend of putin with no political knowlage other than he kicks people very hard... its ok. i mean locals areok but its pretty damn corrupt

[@Vyz3r]

Good luck lol Kalmykia, like other cities in the republic, is not prone to curruption and crimes. The population and businesses are also on the decline because the younger generations are moving to the bigger cities.

[@rashidahmed7731]

You are a wonderful woman, I’d love to learn the Kalmyk history from you?

[@Trgn]

Very informative video 👍

[@rosemaryallen2128]

I am extremely shocked and upset at the historical content of your video. I only knew the charming Kalmyk people through watching the many available videos of the traditional music and dancing, which I love.(I came to it via the spectacular Kalmyk dance in the Moiseyev Ballet repertoire). Any video outlining the evolution of Kalmyk culture would be of great interest.

[@nicholasc.9778]

Nice idea for a channel. Could you do something on the origin of Kalmykia and why the Kalmyks settled there please

[@khokrs710]

I think I am the only Kalmyk in MN. More videos plz.

[@ladysaga9277]

Hi, I am only Kalmyk in Sweden. I live with a swedish man.

[@holzog]

Thank you sister

[@user-ft8nv6qc1k]

Kalmyk 👍 from Japan

[@user-mj2dw8ov4k]

Kalmyks are West Mongols.

[@backgroundmagazine2583]

we aren't, dude. our culture's far cry from Mongolian modern society

[@og882001]

@@backgroundmagazine2583 nah, recently i been watching videos about kalmyks and im fascinated how much we mongolians and kalmyks are similar that almost identical

[@munkhuutsoros7596]

@@backgroundmagazine2583 dude, you are brainwashed by Russian and westerners, Kalmyk language is Mongolic language, Same nomadic culture, And since mongols United, Kalmyk considered themselves as mongol. Kalmyk used to call themselves oirad mongol, the name “Kalmyk” is from turkish people!

[@jimqian6170]

Those of People who didn’t return to China call Kalmykiya people.

[@monicamungun5606]

@@munkhuutsoros7596 im mongolian i can understand kalmyk language 70%

[@saywhatyousay93]

Awesome thanks

[@normanhayashi]

Hi. Thank you for making this video. I probably should've watched this video 2 years ago! I recently did a DNA test with MyHeritage. I didn't get Mongolian in my result but I did get around 3% for Finnish/Baltic which was weird since I have no known relatives from there. Also I found out that MyHeritage has no data whatsoever on Siberians or any ethnic minorities in Russia, so I requested my raw DNA data from MyHeritage so that I can process the data using some known DNA calculators on the web that breaks it down into specific haplogroups. It turns out that 22% of my DNA was directly related to the Kalmyks, and the Kalmyk DNA had a slight variation to it that it didn't register as modern Mongols found in Mongolia or China. Also the Finnish/Baltic DNA turns out to be Siberian (Yakut, Tuvan etc) which is in close proximity to the Kalmyks and some intermarriage may have happened during the Mongol conquest era. And here I am researching more about the Kalmyks. When I looked at your face, some of your facial structure is quite similar to mine. Especially the nose. This makes me even more interested of Kalmyk culture. My great grandmother came from China but her mother came from Japan. She had told my grandfather that she was a mix of Chinese, Japanese and Mongolian. However she didn't say exactly what Mongolian tribe because she was unsure, and she wasn't sure whether the Mongolian (Kalmyk) connection came through China or Japan. I'm hoping I can visit Kalmykia one day. Just to connect with my ancestral land.

[@rothsshvili5125]

Interesting indeed. Is your blood type by any chance RH negative?

[@normanhayashi]

@@rothsshvili5125 Not sure, didn't draw blood for my DNA sample. Stop asking weird questions that is out of topic.

[@normanhayashi]

@MyHeritage Mongolia Do you work for MyHeritage? Seriously the algorithm produced by MyHeritage is very flawed. They give you your results based on where you were born rather than what you really are by haplogroup percentage. They mistaken my Torguud DNA (Haplogroup C2b1a2) for Chinese and the tiny bit of Altai DNA (Haplogroup Q), which most Torguud and Kalmyk would have in small percentages as native South American. I don't have families from the Baltic, Finland or South America. I have just recently done a check on my family tree history and what I mistook as Kalmyk was actually Xinjiang Torguud which is basically the same people by heritage and history. I found this out by downloading my raw DNA data and having another company re-decipher the data, and that's how it's confirmed me of my Mongolian heritage although it is actually Xinjiang Torguud instead of Kalmyk, which I think doesn't really matter because Torguuds in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang always welcome their cousins from Kalmykia.

[@normanhayashi]

@MyHeritage Mongolia By the way, I understand that many Mongols are proud of their heritage thus it makes sense for Mongolian people to feel as if their ancestry is endangered. I've only heard stories from my grandfather's sister that we have Mongolian ancestry although we didn't know how we got it. When I got the actual DNA breakdown analysis and found out that I have Torguud DNA in the highest percentage than Japanese and Chinese, I was really shocked. When I read the history of Kalmykia and Torguud in Xinjiang and West Mongolia I started understanding how I got my Mongolian ancestry, and seriously I feel the plight of my ancestors fleeing the Volga region. I was born and raised in Malaysia, and I only knew of my Chinese and Japanese identity, therefore when I filled the MyHeritage form I had listed whatever I know at the top of my head. And of course all the combined haplogroups found in Torguud people (C2b1a2, N, Q, O2) didn't make sense for someone born in Malaysia so they broke it up to China, South American, Baltic and Finnish. Having the highest percentage of my DNA as Torguud (close to 40%) makes sense to me now as the Oirat history has said that the Qing dynasty of China had broken up the Oirat and exiled some of them including my great-great grandfather all over China. Once exiled they lose their identity and was made into practicing Chinese culture. So yes, evidence is in the blood, so you can say what you want brother. I'd rather not be called a Chinese, I have my Japanese identity but I am also ready to embrace Mongol identity as it is in my blood.

[@normanhayashi]

@LanguagesPro Clearly you don't know your own history. I have no quarrel with an ignorant person who thinks like a peasant. My ancestors have no time dealing with trolls during their time, so do I. Your ancestors would've been ashamed of your actions. Өдртн сән болтха.

[@Ace08888]

😗😁😘 хайртай шүү . Амжилт.

[@conceptobject]

Lookig to meet other Kalymicks in Colorado.

[@mixalismasaoutis1798]

Hi from NL. My wife is Kalmyk and I am Greek.

[@enkhtaivangantulga3961]

amazing

[@munkhuutsoros7596]

Hello from dzungaria

[@gungaadorjaltanchuluun8248]

You from Xinjiang? I from mongolia. I derbet oirat.

[@munkhuutsoros7596]

@@gungaadorjaltanchuluun8248 Mend saihan, bi xinjiang iliin goliin uuld mongol bolnav,

[@gungaadorjaltanchuluun8248]

gungaaDorvod0426. Wechat

[@munkhuutsoros7596]

@@kassym.bolebay I am Mongolian

[@munkhuutsoros7596]

@@kassym.bolebay yes people always recognized me as uyghur in China, And my family in seven generation didn’t mix, maybe my ancestor was mixed in times of dzungar khanate.

[@danahbatyreva9457]

wow, my grandmother was one of those babies born while they were in Siberia. That is so crazy to think about.

[@user-ex9ed5fr8u]

Super Laik !

[@aw854]

Kalmyks are of mostly of Torgut descent, with some Durvuds among them. The Torguts are a subgroup of Keraits. They used to be called Turkhagut and it eventually morphed to Torgut. They joined the Oyrats in 1607.

[@panpampil6311]

AW8 nope. There are mostly torguds, dorvds, khoshuds and buzavs.

[@lokeshgsadhmaya5499]

Love from India ❤️

[@og882001]

Love from Mongolia

[@johnhope1682]

thanks from china！

[@alamjitgrewal5238]

Love from india.

[@mericanwit]

Curious to know how the loyalty to the Army of the White aka being being Cossacks played any part in the horrific deportations

[@dennyyohanes8677]

Kalmyk also made an empire called Dzunggar Khanate before they were wiped out by Qing Dynasty.

[@ver9912]

may i ask when did your family left russia? 1940s or 1990s?

[@amartuvshinddelger6511]

Interesting

[@beregu]

Very informative. Mongolians call Kalmyk as Torguud (Torgut) Mongols.

[@panpampil6311]

Enkhbilguun Erdenetsogt we are torgud, dorvd and khoshud

[@hakan9502]

What does Torgut means? Because Turgut is a historical Turkish given name, wonder if there is any relationship.

[@beregu]

hart sitone According to the ‘Secret History of Mongol’, written in 1240, and historians, the name “Torgud” derived from the word “turkhag”; roughly meaning either ‘huge/big men’ or ‘palace/royal guard’ in the middle Mongolian language. I couldn’t find direct translation in English and I don’t know if there is any connection with Turkish name.

[@hakan9502]

@@beregu I presume Torgut is the plural form, then the name is likely not related. Turkhag sounds related to Turkic Yatkhag though, which also meant guard, Tur means to stand or wait, Yat means to sleep. Thanks anyway. Edit: I was right, Turkhag was yet another word for guard in Old Turkic, recorded in 1069.

[@beregu]

hart sitone Good to know. Thanks.

[@ver9912]

and also are your family remain religious? do you or your family still be able speak mogolian? is there a oirat community where you live? if so how many of them?

[@Wyllyum]

Great job! Tsem Tulku Rinpoche was the first Kalmyk person I had hear of from the New Jersey area. That brief history lesson was great.

[@seanii7098]

Wow! Similar to Koreans who used to live in the North (present-day Russia and China) of the Korean Peninsula. Koreans fighting against the Japanese were forced to leave home, and many settled in Manchuria (present-day North-East China) and present-day Russia near Vladivostok (A city located around the Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan). In the 40s, Stalin deported these people to Central Asia, citing or fearing that these people may collaborate with the Imperial Japanese Army. (present-day Stan countries - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and other parts of Russia.). Many have died. Koreans are genetically closely related to Mongols as well. What's interesting is that similar to the Kalmyk people, another large post nomadic people of Mongolian origin found in Afghanistan is the Hazaras and they were heavily oppressed and killed by the rival Pashtuns which have resulted in a drastic reduction in population (Approx. 16% to 9% of the total population in Afghanistan)

[@seanii7098]

@MyHeritage Mongolia Both Korea and Japan have less genetic diversity compared to Chinese, so the group that Koreans are closest to in China are the Kitans, Manchus (The ethnic group ruled the last dynasty of China - the Qing Dynasty - They are not Chinese Han), and the outer Eastern Mongols on their border, together they are lump sum into a present-day Northeast Chinese. These groups are genetically closer to people in modern Korea than Chinese Han in the “Chinese Heartland” along the Yellow River. Today’s Japanese are made up of Jomon, Yayoi, and perhaps some Southeast Asian component that is still not easily identified. Koreans are also a composite. Han Chinese are a miss mash of various groups of Sino-Tibetans, Hmong/Yao, Tai-Kadai, Mongol, Tungusic, and even perhaps Austroasiatic speakers…and likely some other groups as well (very small amounts of Indo-European speakers and Ughers that lived in Western China, etc). Are we saying that the majority of the ancestors of today’s Japanese, majority of the ancestors of today’s Koreans, today’s Han, etc…all one people in ancient times? “No” The Japanese Yayoi component (the majority of their ancestry) and the majority ancestry of Koreans were likely related, and both came from the same region in present day North China, Southern Russian Far East, or Eastern Mongolia. They are also related somewhat more distantly to Mongols and Tungusic speakers. However, these groups are not related to the majority ancestors of Chinese, Sino-Tibetan speakers, that seemed to have originated from much further south, somewhere near present day Tibet/Qinghai/Sichuan. Linguistically, Koreans, Japanese, Mongolian, the names of Central Asian countries that end with "stan" (Except Tajikstan), Hungarians, Turks and people near Baikal all speak an Ural-Altai language. Other words, they follow the "Subject-Object-Verb (or Passive Verb in various forms) - SOV" rule. In terms of Korean history here. The kings of Koryo (ancient) Korea during China's Yuan dynasty which was ruled by the Mongols at that time, have traditionally married daughters of the Kublai Khan (the grandson of Chingis Khan). Through by way of marriage, Koryo kings were granted and allowed to rule Korea and gained recognition as an "In-Law" state. The Koryo kings gained this status because they helped Kublai to become the first Emperor of Yuan dynasty. Among the inner circles/court of Kublai and their heirs, typically Koryo kings were 3rd or 4th in their rank behind Kublai Khan himself. So my brother Heritage Mongolian, why the hate? Regardless how close or distant we are from genetics standpoint, the modern Koreans believe they are strongly related to Mongols.

[@andia968]

Love from china

[@JacobFerrero]

What's the best way to learn the Kalmyk langauge?

[@ladysaga9277]

Hi Jacob, i would say that you should visit kalmykia to leran kalmyk,

[@JacobFerrero]

I have a friend in Elista, I will visit at some point

[@ladysaga9277]

That sounds great! It is different language, has a bit difficult grammar. Are you American?

[@JacobFerrero]

Yes, and I know Vietnamese and a bit of Russian, is Kalmyk somewhere in the middle or totally different?

[@ladysaga9277]

Is is nothing like Russian och Vietnamese. It is very much like Mongolian language. But it has Russian (Cyrillic) alphabet. The letters are basically Russian. That is where I would start. If you know several languages it is an advantage. Unfortunately I have spoken too little Kalmyk for the past years since I have moved out from Kalmykia. Which part of US are you from? I have been to California, Hawaii, Illinois, Florida and New York. I love US🥳👍

[@rothsshvili5125]

Mistaken for cannibals and being burned alive by the locals??? WTF! Holy crap.

[@onmusicplus9755]

Kalmyk legacy you know your native language???

[@edwardsmith2970]

good question bro

[@lacostalesmarc403]

Geography now brought me here

[@russelljong831]

What’s her ig name?

[@kookpoong8140]

I would like to say something in Korean. Koreans are not genetically or linguistically related to the Mongols. The appearance is also different if you look closely. Also, Koreans are linguistically different from Manchus. The Korean people are a new race born as a mixture of the indigenous peoples of the Korean Peninsula and various ethnic groups from the north, China, or the south. To be more precise, today's Koreans became linguistically unified as people from three countries were mixed after the unification of the three kingdoms of Silla, and the genetic hybridization continued in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula until the Yuan and Qing dynasties. It is highly probable that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was of Manchu blood.

[@craik7]

Can you explain why the kalmyks took up arms to join the Russians to fight the circassians ?

[@sb25045]

they have no choice en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torghut

[@sho5186]

Dzungars should’ve never mess with Manchurians.

[@Neverdyingpride]

oirats have very good standing in mongolia and they are not minority and do not looked down and tibetans are always welcome in mongolia what are you doing in us?

[@Seoul_Korea_]

Mongolia & Korea is brother & sister. And you look very very Korean. Gene never lies.

[@MB-rb9tk]

This isn’t true at all.

[@jigmatgyatso2785]

I'm from Ladakh in india 🙏

[@youdontsamo]

Thank you. Very informative but difficult to hear as well.

[@kalmyklegacy433]

Thank you! Noted! Will try to do a better job with the audio next time

[@youdontsamo]

Kalmyk Legacy oh, not what I meant. Difficult to hear due to the painful history of Kalmyk people. Sorry for the confusion. The audio is fine!

[@kalmyklegacy433]

@@youdontsamo Oh got it! Yes it is very painful to hear but I thought it was very important in understanding our history, our families, etc. Thank you again for watching!

[@jthomas8263]

Tuvans in Kanas, Xinjiang speaks Mandarin?

[@way03tak]

they speak Tuvan Mandarin and Kazakh

[@amirhanabatamurmahkto9373]

She looks beautiful Korean girl m Korean and Mongolian and Buryatand Sakha Republic and Kalmyk are the same descendants of Tengri which was the title of Ancient Korean King Kalmyks are the descendants of Oirat tribe Oirat related with Korean LEE dynasty founder LEE is called “”””Oryat LEE “” Oyat ==Oryat means “””plum “” in Korean The Founder of Korean LEE CHOSUN Dynasty was “””Lee Sung Ge “”” But actually he was Mongolian Korean His grand grandfather was Korean But his grand mother and mother were Mongolian So his tribe was Oryat Mongol by other Mongol tribes Oyrat means “””LEE “”” So Oyrat Mongol actually means “””””LEE Mongol “””

[@blueg3672]

In China's national history textbook, Kalmyk's return to China is patriotic, and their descendants live in Xinjiang.

[@gonggax3985]

I`m the offspring of those who returned to china

[@normanhayashi]

My Kalmyk ancestor happened to be one of those who returned to Xinjiang. And what the Qing did was terrible. They exiled my ancestor to Southern China as a slave just because the Manchurians hated the Oirats. And now what the Chinese communist party does to the Uyghurs are almost the same as what Qing did to the Oirats. There's nothing patriotic about Kalmyks returning to China. One day they'll lose their language and culture like how my Kalmyk ancestor did. Everyone in my family had heard stories told by my great-grandmother that we are a mix of Chinese, Mongolian and Japanese and that her family lives in Hainan Island. No one knew anything about our Mongolian heritage until I did my DNA test and found that my Mongolian DNA haplogroup is directly matched to the Kalmyks. One day the CCP will make a move to ban DNA testing kits in China to cover up their ethnic erasure of minorities, because currently they're "converting" minor ethnic groups into Han Chinese.

[@normanhayashi]

@LanguagesPro I recently traced back my Torghut ancestry with the help of my Torghut uncle whom I've recently just met. I've discovered that my great-great grandfather was Palta Wang, Prince of the Torghut right banner in Xinjiang. Descendant of Bambar Tayishi, brother of Ubashi Khan. He married a Japanese woman when he studied in Tokyo in 1906 with permission from his first wife. By 1949 our family fled China due to the rise of the CCP. Some ended up in Taiwan before leaving for the USA while my great-grandmother went to Malaysia. She didn't speak about her royal heritage because of the presence of pro-Communist Chinese in Malaysia but I found a photo of her wearing her Qing Dynasty princess robes. My family has been multicultural since my great-great-great grandfather's time. Bayir Wang married a Tibetan, Palta Wang married a Japanese, Mingzhur Wang married a Polish and his sister Nirgidma married a French diplomat. So please stop your racist opinions, it's disgusting. You can't even prove that you're Mongolian or Turkic by hiding behind a troll account.

[@normanhayashi]

@LanguagesPro This is why purity of race in modern times a stupid thing. Do you know how many Oirat kids these days are mixed heritage? In Japan there's hundreds of Oirats from Xinjiang and Qinghai who migrated there and married Japanese. Then in the USA there's thousands Kalmyks who intermarried Americans of various ethnicity - some of them even had already intermixed with Russians before migrating. I have met Mongolian communities in Sydney, Australia - most of them Khalkha like you, and none of them are as stupid as you are behaving right now. They even ask me if I am also Mongolian because of my face, and when I told them that I am partly Xinjiang Torguud they were actually proud of that. The only advice they gave me was to practice more Mongolian language if I can. And calling me "hulgaichuud torguut" is utter disrespect to me and all Torghut kinsmen!

[@normanhayashi]

@LanguagesPro So are you saying my great-great grandfather Palta Wang don't deserve to be called Mongolian because he had a Japanese wife? And his full Torguud issues Mingzhur & Nirgidma who married Europeans? How about the hundreds of Oirats and Kalmyks that settled in Japan and the USA who married non-Oirat? Are they also stupid? Do you know how many Kalmyks in Russia who look more Russian but proudly wear Deel and make effort to learn Halmg Keln? You are such an idiot to call us stupid for being mixed blood. It's the culture and language that matters not the blood. Go watch this video in the link below - your Mongolian professor even showed in his research that our Hunnu ancestors had Chinese and European DNA! kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2O8i3-hrqpjrcU

[@zirconaz]

Kalmyk Aunty

[@sb25045]

sorry

[@normanhayashi]

I wish more Kalmyks would learn more about their history and culture. Being one of the few descendants of the original Kalmyk royal families, it is sad to have other Kalmyks gaslight me and claim that I may have Turkic ancestry instead - it's like claiming that Ubashi Khan was Turkic all along. For the Kalmyk people's information - modern day Kalmyks from the Volga are not unique. You still look the same as those of us from Xinjiang and Western Mongolia. When I look at a Kalmyk, your faces reminds me of my own relatives. And those of you who thought that Ubashi Khan had abandoned your ancestors during the great migration, there's no way to help them cross the unfrozen Volga River, and some of the Durvud & Khoshuud tribes elected to stay instead. I am the great-great grandson of Palta Wang, descendant of Bambar Noyon - Ubashi Khan's younger brother. It is very disheartening when keyboard warriors try to downplay me and call me Turkic, when it was my direct ancestors who founded the Kalmyk Khanate itself. Those people should be ashamed of calling themselves Kalmyks when they know nothing about their own history.

[@patrickcloutier6801]

Stalin behaved like a savage toward the peaceful Kalmyks. He destroyed or closed all of their Buddhist temples and exiled or executed their elders. And in spite of all this, only 3,000 Kalmyks volunteered to help the Germans in 1942 - such a low figure suggests a great amount of self-restraint on the part of the Kalmyk people. I do not fault any Kalmyk who saw service in the German Army as the only way to defend their people.

[@tessacyclone6329]

They were in many ways forced to ally or join with Germany, it's extremely traumatic either way and needs to be widely acknowledged

[@wtfhah]

@@tessacyclone6329 They were not force to ally with Germany at all, and many did fight for the Red Army

[@wtfhah]

It was more like 10,000 that were directly with the Nazis

[@jimd9606]

@@wtfhah 10.000?? Are you nuts?

[@wtfhah]

@@jimd9606 Yes, that's how many allied with Nazis 5,000 in Dr. Doll's legion alone