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  • noun Plural form of Tungus.

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Examples

  • Bastholm represents most nations as very vicious and immoral; and on the other hand he reports that excellent traits of character are found amongst some savage peoples; as, for instance, amongst the Orotchyses, the inhabitants of the island Savu, the Tunguses, and the Pelew islanders.

    On Human Nature 2004

  • In Central India the sun and moon are worshipped by many tribes, as the Khonds, Korkús, Tunguses, and Buraets.

    Moon Lore Timothy Harley

  • The people of this culture were ancestors of the Tunguses, probably mixed with an element that is contained in the present-day Paleo-Siberian tribes.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • Anthropologically they belonged, like the Tunguses, to the Mongol race.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • On the basis of our present knowledge we assume that the peoples of the Lung-shan culture were probably of Tai and Yao stocks together with some Tunguses.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • Turks, Tunguses, and others; among the auxiliaries of the Mongols were

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • The Shang civilization, an evident off-shoot of the Lung-shan culture (Tai, Yao, and Tunguses), but also with elements of the Hsia culture (with Tibetan and Mongol and/or Turkish elements), was beyond doubt a high civilization.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • Po-hai, ruled by Tunguses, in northern Korea, and the new Korean state of Kao-li, which liberated itself from Chinese overlordship in 919.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • Not until the sixteenth century did these Tunguses recover, reorganize, and appear again in history this time under the name of Manchus.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • He referred to the thousands of Tunguses under him as 'my little Tunguses.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

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