Talk:Ordos people

Who were they?[edit]

The encyclopaedia should provide definite and useable information. Currently the page does not even say who were these "Ordos people". The lead endorses the academic view that "they are considered as some of the eastermost people of Scythian affinity to have settled in Central Asian steppes". Then a bunch of contradictory unsourced statements follow:

The Ordos people... may have been identical with, the Yuezhi.
They were also culturally related to another nomadic tribe to the east, the Eastern Hu (Chinese:東胡, "Donghu").
They may also have been related to the Di people (Chinese:氐, "Western Barbarians") of Chinese annals.
By one account, the area of Ordos was the legendary land of origin of the Turks.

So who were they? In what way were they related? Ethnically? Culturally? Linguistically? All peoples of the world are related in one way or another. Is anything known for certain about them? The proliferation of speculation is confusing to an average reader. --Ghirla^-трёп- 12:15, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This term also refers to a branch of Mongolian. --虞海 (Yú Hǎi) (talk) 10:51, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]