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Burmese: ကိုးကန့်လူမျိုး | |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Shan State, Myanmar | |
| Languages | |
| Kokang Chinese, Burmese, Standard Chinese | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Burmese Chinese, Han Chinese, Shan, Chin Haw, Other Sino-Tibetan peoples |
The Kokang people (Chinese: 果敢華人; pinyin: Guǒgǎn Huárén or 果敢族 (Guǒgǎn zú); Burmese: ကိုးကန့်လူမျိုး) are Mandarin-speaking Han Chinese[1] native to Kokang in Myanmar, administered as the Kokang Self-Administered Zone.[2]
- ^ Burma has other, non-Kokang populations of Han Chinese; depending on what area of China they originally immigrated from, these populations speak Yunnanese, Hokkien, Cantonese, Hakka, and Hainanese. See Mya Than (1997). "The Ethnic Chinese in Myanmar and their Identity". In Leo Suryadinata (ed.). Ethnic Chinese as Southeast Asians. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. 117–8. ISBN 981-3055-58-8.
- ^ Ng Han Guan. "Ethnic rebels flee Myanmar, abandoning weapons and uniforms for safe haven in south China". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 30 August 2009.