Fuyu Kyrgyz (
Fuyü Gïrgïs, Fu-Yu Kirgiz), also known as
Manchurian Kirghiz, is the easternmost
Turkic language. Despite its name, it is not a variety of
Kyrgyz but is closer to
Khakas; the people originated in the Yenisei region of Siberia but were relocated into the
Dzungar Khanate by the
Dzungars, and then the Qing moved them from
Dzungaria to northeastern China in 1761, and the name may be due to the survival of a common tribal name. The Yenisei Kirghiz were made to pay tribute in a treaty concluded between the Dzungars and Russians in 1635. The present-day Kyrgyz people originally lived in the same area that the speakers of Fuyu Kyrgyz at first dwelled within modern-day Russia. These Kyrgyz were known as the
Yenisei Kyrgyz. It is now spoken in northeastern
China's Heilongjiang province, in and around
Fuyu County,
Qiqihar (300 km northwest of
Harbin) by a small number of
passive speakers who are classified as
Kyrgyz nationality.