 Salars celebrating Novruz in China | |
| Total population | |
| 165,159[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| China (Qinghai, Gansu, Xinjiang) | |
| Languages | |
| Salar, Mandarin, Amdo Tibetan | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Turkmens, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uyghurs, Tibetan Muslims, Hui |
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The Salar people are a Turkic ethnic minority in China who speak Salar, a Turkic language of the Oghuz sub-branch.[2][3][4][5][6] They numbered 165,159 people in 2020, according to that year's national census.[1]
The Salars live mostly in the Qinghai–Gansu border region, on both sides of the Yellow River, namely in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County and Hualong Hui Autonomous County of Qinghai and the adjacent Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County of Gansu.[7] There are also Salars in some parts of Henan and Shanxi, as well as in northern Xinjiang, in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. They are a patriarchal agricultural society and predominantly Muslim.
- ^ a b 中国统计年鉴—2021 [China Statistical Yearbook – 2021]. National Bureau of Statistics of China (Report). Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ atlasofhumanity.com. "China, Salar People". Atlas Of Humanity. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ Sandman, Erika; Simon, Camille (2016). "Tibetan as a "model language" in the Amdo Sprachbund: evidence from Salar and Wutun". Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. 3 (1): 88. doi:10.1515/jsall-2016-0003. S2CID 146919944. hal-03427697.
- ^ Sandman, Erika; Simon, Camille (23 October 2023). "Tibetan as a "model language" in the Amdo Sprachbund: Evidence from Salar and Wutun". Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. 3 (1): 85. doi:10.1515/jsall-2016-0003. S2CID 146919944.
- ^ Sandman, Erika. A Grammar of Wutun (PDF) (PhD Thesis. Department of World Cultures thesis). University of Helsinki. p. 15.
- ^ Han, Deyan (1999). Mostaert, Antoine (ed.). "The Salar Khazui System". Central Asiatic Journal. 43–44. Translated by Ma Jianzhong and Kevin Stuart (2 ed.). O. Harrassowitz: 212.
- ^ Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan, ed. (1972). Peoples of the Earth: China (including Tibet), Japan and Korea. Vol. 13 of Peoples of the Earth. Danbury Press. p. 142.
The Sa-la (also known as Salar) live in Hsun-hus Salar county of Tsing-hai, Hua-ling Hui Autonomous County of Tsing-hai, Lin-hsia ... Language group: Tibetan. ... Married women are mourned only by their husband's family, never by their own.