Dingling
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For the writer, see Ding Ling. For the tomb, see Dingling (Ming).
The Dingling[lower-alpha 1] were an ancient people who appears in Chinese historiography in the context of the 1st century BCE.
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The Dingling are considered to have been an early Turkic-speaking people.[1][2] They were also proposed to be the ancestors of Tungusic speakers among the later Shiwei people,[3][4] or are related to Na-Dené and Yeniseian speakers.[5]
Modern archaeologists have identified the Dingling as belonging to the eastern Scythian horizon, namely the Tagar culture.[6]