The origin and the maintenance problems of "tele" ethnonym in the modern ethnology

This article is directed to identification and consideration of major social political development factors of Turkic "tele" tribes since the period of this ethnonym emergence up to falling of the first Turkic Khaganate (Eternal Turkic Ale). The purpose of this article is not only reconstruction of the history of emergence and interstate interaction of early representatives of "tele " tribes, but also the main modern ethnological problems identification which one are connected with studying of an ethnonym. In the article the main solutions of this problem in modern ethnology are also defined. Author's efforts dedicate to renew and rebuilding the systems of ancestors between three ethnonyms: dingling - tele - telengit. As author says now there is an opinion that dingling ethnonym is a strict ancestor of tele, and tele ethnonym is an ancestor of telengit. Moreover, there is a point of view that hunnu ethnonym somehow related to this system and could be anscestor of tele or telengit. According to author all these opinions today haven't got any strict proves and more hypotheses than direct facts. Efforts of author refer to find decisions for this problems and opportunity to prove or dispose those hypotheses. There are three parts of the article. In the beginning author summarizes today's sources for "tele" ethnonym problem. The second part contents analysis of sources in the prism of opportunity to use it for further research. According to the author most of sources are overused right now, so there are a lack of interest to them for researches. The problem of sources leads to the problem of "time gaps". In the author's opinion as far as nowadays only few sources tells us about tele ethnonym, there are a lack of information about periods which one is not refer to this sources. According to author there are three main gaps which one cannot allow us right now prove or dispose hypotheses about tele ethnonym and it's ancestors. The third part of article is directed to find a way for overcoming time gap problem. Author defines three common ways for that. The author concludes first of all that there is situation of lack of data and proves about tele ethnonym problem. Moreover, in case of proving of system dingling-tele-telengit, the telengit ethnonym can be more ancient than we supposed before. In this case efforts can be useful for tourist situation for regions of telengit living (mostly Altai, South of Kemerovo region, Tomsk Region). In case of dispose all these hypotheses telengit people get no harm, because situation stays the same.

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