Thread:0RedEye/@comment-33706373-20180622161531/@comment-27340960-20180624180037

"Tuvan (Tuvan: Тыва дыл, Tıwa dıl; [tʰɯˈʋa tɯl]), also known as Tuvinian, Tyvan or Tuvin, is a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tuva in south-central Siberia in Russia. The language has borrowed a great number of roots from the Mongolian language, Tibetan and more recently from the Russian language."

"Tuvan (also spelled Tyvan) is linguistically classified as a Northeastern or Siberian Turkic language, closely related to several other Siberian Turkic languages including Khakas and Altai languages. Its closest relative is the moribund Tofa."

But Chinese and Mongols classify them as Mongol. So ok they're ethnically/culturally Mongol but linguistally Turkic