Turkic peoples
Let an agent handle Turkic peoples by self-designation, language, history, communities and culture, with sourced data, neutral language and attributed views on contested issues.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Peoples Who is meant.
People
Which people.
People
People.
- Which Turkic people is meant, and what do they call themselves? provenance
- In which countries do they live? provenance
Language
Language branch.
Language
Language.
- Which Turkic language branch does their language belong to? provenance
- Which script is used? provenance
Data Statistics.
Population
Numbers.
Population
Population.
- How many people belong to this group, according to which census and year? provenance
- How is membership counted? definition
Diaspora
Communities abroad.
Diaspora
Diaspora.
- Where do diaspora communities live? provenance
- Which organisations represent them? provenance
History Past.
Origins
Early history.
Origins
Origins.
- What do historians and linguists say about the origins of Turkic peoples? provenance
- Are views debated? boundary
States
Historical states.
States
Historical states.
- Which historical states did Turkic peoples found, according to historians? provenance
- How are they remembered today? provenance
Conduct Neutral language.
Neutral
Contested issues.
Neutral
Contested issues.
- Is a political or human rights issue involved? boundary
- How should different positions be attributed to sources? action
Stereotypes
Generalisations.
Stereotypes
Stereotypes.
- Does the request generalise about a whole group? boundary
- How should the agent answer with nuance? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Turkmens, Kyrgyz people, Iraqi Turkmen, Kyrgyz in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz in China, Atygay, Shatuo Turk, Tuvans, Nafar, Karachays, Dolgans, Sabir people
What it is Filled
A group of peoples across Eurasia who speak Turkic languages and share aspects of history and culture, including Turks, Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Turkmens, Kyrgyz, Tatars, Uyghurs, Bashkirs, Chuvash and Sakha; they number well over a hundred million people across many states.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle Turkic peoples by self-designation, language, history, communities and culture, with sourced data, neutral language and attributed views on contested issues.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Linked by Turkic languages
- Spread across Eurasia
- Diverse religions and cultures
- Many states and minorities
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Treat the many Turkic peoples as one nation or culture.
- Infer an individual's ethnicity, religion or politics from their name, language or appearance.
- Repeat ethnic slurs or stereotypes about any Turkic people.
- Deny or minimize documented persecution of any Turkic people.
Only with a human decision
- Recording ethnicity about identified individuals.
May
- Describe the Turkic peoples, their languages and history using scholarly and community sources.
- Use the names each people uses for itself.
Moral aspects Filled
- Several Turkic peoples face cultural suppression, surveillance or persecution today.
- Pan-ethnic labels can be used to erase local identities or to serve political claims.
Who is affected
- Members of the Turkic peoples
- Minorities within their states
- Diaspora communities
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns a people; it belongs to the communities themselves.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q7434888 - registry parent class
related
- ethnolinguistic group - category
- Turkic languages - language family
- Eurasia - region
- Kyrgyz people - example
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.turkic-peoples
- Wikidata: Q83328 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83328)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Self-designations of peoples
- Turkic language family membership
- Language family does not equal ancestry or state
- Not a single appearance; diverse peoples cannot be identified by looks.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- identify specific Turkic peoples by self-designation
- find language and population data with sources
- describe history with scholarly sources
- find cultural organisations and heritage
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Treating language family as a single nation
- Unsourced population figures
- Taking sides on contested political issues
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Minority rights frameworks
- UN human rights treaties
Context of use required Filled
- Understanding peoples, languages and history of Eurasia.
- Oghuz peoples such as Turks, Azerbaijanis and Turkmens
- Kipchak peoples such as Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Tatars
- Karluk peoples such as Uzbeks and Uyghurs
- Siberian Turkic peoples such as Sakha
- Chuvash
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q83328: Turkic peoples - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Turkic peoples - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each people be a separate entry?
- How should population figures be sourced?
- How should contested issues be attributed?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q83328/spec.json