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Tungid en · NOUN

Perhaps derived from Tungus, people native to Northeastern Asia and Siberia.

(historical) A racial classification used in physical anthropology as a Mongoloid subrace found in Inner Mongolia and parts of Siberia.
- The Yayoi are believed to be of Tungid stock and it is possible that northern mythology percolated to them in the regions of their origin. 1998, R. Weerakoon, Mythology & the Early Asian State, page 137:
- It is also presumable that the Tungids, who had some contact with the Proto-Chinese, might have adopted the plank-type sled of the latter which could replace their own, which was probably a bark sled. 1969, Asian Folklore Institute, Asian Folklore Studies, volumes 28-30, page 69:
- The Mongolid (Tungid and north Sinid) strain of the prehistoric Japanese must, to a large extent, be attributed to arrivals from Korea by way of the Tsushima straits, attested to by finds of clay vessels with pointed bottoms and with roller-stamped décor such as were made at Sobatu (north Kyushu). 1964, Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge, volume 2, page 264:

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Tungids	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Mongolid (individual of Inner Mongolia)