The western Khanates, however, eventually adopted Islam ( under Berke and Ghazan ) and the Turkic languages ( because of its commercial importance ), although allegiance to the Great Khan and limited use of the Mongolic languages can be seen even in the 1330s.
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The "'Mongolic languages "'are a group of languages spoken in Mongolian, is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia and the Mongolian residents of Inner Mongolia, China with an estimated 5.7 + million speakers.
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The Khamnigan people, called the " Horse Evenki ( " Khamnigan " is the Mongol name for the Evenki ), while Khamnigan Mongol is a distinct Mongolic language, not a dialect of Mongol or Buryat as traditionally classified in Mongolia or Russia.
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One of the Burkhanist deities is Ak-Burkhan, or " White Burkhan . " " Burkhan " means " " god " " or " " buddha " " in Mongolic languages, yet Burkhanism is not considered Buddhist, as the term is also used in shamanistic nomenclature.
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That the Mongols referred to Western Xia as " Tangut " to represent the founding ethnic group, the Tuy�hu Xianbei, is consistent with the theories of the Mongol origins postulated by the Outer Mongolian scholars, who have held that the Mongols had descended from the Xiongnu, more specifically the eastern Xiongnu who spoke proto-Mongolic language, as opposed to the western Xiongnu who spoke proto-Turkish language.
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Rather, Turkic languages both peripheral ones like the Bulgar branch and central ones like the Oghuz and Karluk-Chagatay branches drifted westward by autonomous movements of diverse tribes and migrating traders, soldiers and townspeople, outnumbering and assimilating non-Turkic indigenous peoples along the way, and being partly replaced by other language families that have become prominent in the east, such as Mongolic languages on the Mongolian steppes, Indic languages in India, and Persian in post-Timurid Iran.
