Ethnogenesis and Ethnic Processes in Modern Kazakhstan ★

Finding the roots of ethnic Kazakh people is extremely complex, and is intimately connected with the study of ancient Kazakhstan and adjacent areas of Eurasia. Among the many aspects of the origin of the Kazakh people are two aspects: linguistic and anthropological. There is every reason to believe that the two processes in the area under parallel development, mainly for historical vertical. This approach allows us to trace the continuity and preserve the “ancestral” traits. However, in certain periods of history played a role and the development of the horizontal line. It is noteworthy that in the ancient indigenous monks region had a common linguistic and anthropological basis, and modern descendants of the genetic clustering generally corresponds to the linguistic. Kazakhstan's long history can be divided into two periods: the Indo-European and Turkic. The first period, in spite of their considerable time distance, appears as a real phase formed not only with strong economic and cultural traditions, but also a number of prominent ethnic groups. This article is an analysis of the ethnic processes in Kazakhstan.