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Pechenegs or Patzinaks (Armenian: "Badzinag", Bulgarian/Russian: Pechenegi (Печенеги), Greek: Patzinaikos (Πατζιναικος), Hungarian: Besenyő, Latin: Расinасае, Old Turkish (assumed): Beçenek, Turkish: Peçenekler) were a semi-nomadic Turkic people of the Central Asian steppes speaking the Pecheneg language which belonged to the Turkic language family.