Salar people
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| (104,503 (2000 census)) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| China: provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Xinjiang | |
| Languages | |
| Salar, Chinese | |
| Religion | |
| Muslim | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Turkmen people, Hui people, Tibetans, Han Chinese |
The Salar people (Salar: Salır, سالار; Chinese: 撒拉族; pinyin: Sālāzú, Xiao'erjing: صَالاذُ) are an ethnic minority of China who largely speak the Salar language, an Oghuz Turkic language.
The Salar people numbered 104,503 people in the last census of 2000. They 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. There are also Salars in Xinjiang (in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture).
They are a patriarchal agricultural society and are predominantly Muslim.
According to Salar tradition, they are the descendants of the Salur tribe, belonging to the Oghuz Turks tribe of the Western Turkic Khaganate. During the Tang dynasty, the Salur tribe dwelt within China's borders — later moving west towards Central Asia.
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