Kazakh and Oirat (Kalmyk, Dzungar) kinship

The paper discusses the features of kinship between Kazakhs and Oirats. The cultural and historical identity of the Dzungars and Kalmyks, the history of their coming to the Kazakh border is being studied. Dzungar is a politonymic term (the self-name is translated as "close"), which means the Oirat population of the Dzungar Khanate. Initially, the Dzungarian union was formed at the beginning of the 17th century. At that time, the Oirat tribes united at the head of the Choros clan under the leadership of Gumechi (Khara Khulan), who was a descendant of the taishas of Togon and Esen and bore the title of Khara-Hula-taishi. The Kazakh Kalmyk, the Oirat, the Chinese elite, the Russian Zyungar (Dzhungar) are all one people. The Turks called Kalmykia the Western Mongols. For a long time, they called themselves Oirats, and in Chinese books they are called Eluts. According to the Russian orientalist Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold, the word "Kalmykia" is one of the Muslim books written by the Persian historian Sharaf-ad-Din Yazdi in 1425. It is borrowed from the Turkic "stay", which, apparently, is due to the fact that the Oirats remained among the fire worshipers. In turn, the words Kalmyk, Oirat, Elut and Dzhungar (the people on the left wing) are the names of the Western Mongols Choros, Khosaut, Torgauyt, Dorbat, which date back to the 14th century, the time of the formation of the "Union of Oirats", which left the Mongol Khanate and came under the rule of its tribes.