Sir-Kıvchak

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Sir-Kıvchak were a Turkic people whose existence is controversial and who were proposed to be precursors to the Kipchaks.

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The Sir appeared as Xinli 薪犁 (OC: *siŋ-ri(:)l) in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian but were not referred to again until the 7th century as Xue 薛 (MC: *siᴇt̚).^[1][2]

In the Bain Tsokto inscriptions of 720s erected by Tonyukuk, the name Türük "Turks" is mostly accompanied by the name (E)Sir (Old Turkic script: