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( Koreans)
78.5 million (est.)[1] The Korean people are an East Asian ethnic group.[7] Most Koreans speak the Korean language. Koreans are believed to be descendents of Altaic-[8][9] or proto-Altaic[10]-speaking tribes, linking them with Mongolians, Tungusics and Turkics. Archaeological evidence suggest proto-Koreans were Altaic-language-speaking migrants from south-central Siberia,[11] who populated ancient Korea in successive waves from the neolithic age to the Bronze Age[12]. Recent advances in the study of polymorphisms in the human Y-chromosome have produced evidence to suggest that the Korean people have a very long history as a distinct, mostly endogamous ethnic group, as male Koreans display a high frequency of Y-chromosomes belonging to Haplogroup O2b that are more or less specific to Korean populations.[citation needed]
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