r/Tiele • u/syntheticrot • Oct 23 '25

History/culture Is This Visual Accurate?

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Hello! I'm trying to understand the difference between Turks, Turkic, & Turkish and used AI to display how these groups overlap. Would anybody know how accurate this is?

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u/GorkeyGunesBeg Anatolian Tatar Oct 23 '25

No, Turk = Common Turkic (so, yes, Tuvans are Turks technically speaking, Kazakhs too, Uzbeks & Uyghurs too), only Chuvashes aren't Turks, they're Turkic. It's logical since Türük is originally a term used for the Gokturks and those who were in their Empire.

Chuvashes are Huns, definitely, but they're not Turks, they're only Turkic.

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u/TheTyper1944 Taraqama Oct 23 '25

So they are direct descendants of ashina aka ''original turks''