Post by galvatron prime on Oct 20, 2014 4:25:57 GMT
Unrecognized ethnic groups in China
Several ethnic groups of the People's Republic of China are not officially recognized. Taken together, these groups (未识别民族 wèi shíbié mínzú) number more than 730,000 people; if considered as a single group, they would constitute the twentieth most populous ethnic group of China. There are in addition small distinct ethnic groups that have been classified as part of larger ethnic groups that are officially recognized.
Completely unrecognized ethnic groups include:
Bajia (八甲人)
Lai (萊人)
Deng (僜人)
Gejia (革家人)
Khmu (克木人)
Macanese (土生葡人, people of mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry in Macau; Eurasians)[citation needed]
Mang (芒人)
Jews(犹太, Youtai)
Eurasians in Hong Kong
Naturalized Chinese citizens of South and Southeast Asian backgrounds in Hong Kong
Yamato Japanese (大和民族) in Dalian
Ryukyuans (琉球民族) in Taiwan
Ethnic groups that have been subsumed under the official list of 56 recognized ethnic groups:
Akha people - officially a branch of Hani people
Aynu/Ani of China - officially classified as Uyghurs
Chuanqing - officially classified as Han Chinese
Dolan - officially classified as Uyghurs
Kucong (苦聪人) - officially classified as Lahu
Hui'an maidens - officially classified as Han Chinese
Mosuo (摩梭人) - officially classified as Naxi
Shan (掸族) - some classified as Buyi, others as Zhuang, and still others as undistinguished
Sherpa (夏尔巴人), officially classified as Tibetans
Tibetan Muslims - officially classified as Tibetans, also known as the Kachee
Tuvans (图瓦人) - officially classified as Mongol
Tanka - officially classified as Han Chinese
Utsul - officially classified as Hui, though they have more in common with Chams, Malays and other Austronesian peoples.
Waxiang people (瓦乡族) - officially classified as Miao or Han Chinese
Ben people (本人) Khitan adherents in Shidian, Yunnan. They're not Daur people. Still use the otherwise extinct Khitan script in their cemeteries, officially classified as Han Chinese, Bai or Mongolian.
Credit
Wikipedia
Other note
Some Evenki in Northeast Russia have Khitan blood while some Central Asian like Kazakh and Kyrgyzstan have Khitan blood as result of Western Liao,some become Muslim.
Several ethnic groups of the People's Republic of China are not officially recognized. Taken together, these groups (未识别民族 wèi shíbié mínzú) number more than 730,000 people; if considered as a single group, they would constitute the twentieth most populous ethnic group of China. There are in addition small distinct ethnic groups that have been classified as part of larger ethnic groups that are officially recognized.
Completely unrecognized ethnic groups include:
Bajia (八甲人)
Lai (萊人)
Deng (僜人)
Gejia (革家人)
Khmu (克木人)
Macanese (土生葡人, people of mixed Chinese-Portuguese ancestry in Macau; Eurasians)[citation needed]
Mang (芒人)
Jews(犹太, Youtai)
Eurasians in Hong Kong
Naturalized Chinese citizens of South and Southeast Asian backgrounds in Hong Kong
Yamato Japanese (大和民族) in Dalian
Ryukyuans (琉球民族) in Taiwan
Ethnic groups that have been subsumed under the official list of 56 recognized ethnic groups:
Akha people - officially a branch of Hani people
Aynu/Ani of China - officially classified as Uyghurs
Chuanqing - officially classified as Han Chinese
Dolan - officially classified as Uyghurs
Kucong (苦聪人) - officially classified as Lahu
Hui'an maidens - officially classified as Han Chinese
Mosuo (摩梭人) - officially classified as Naxi
Shan (掸族) - some classified as Buyi, others as Zhuang, and still others as undistinguished
Sherpa (夏尔巴人), officially classified as Tibetans
Tibetan Muslims - officially classified as Tibetans, also known as the Kachee
Tuvans (图瓦人) - officially classified as Mongol
Tanka - officially classified as Han Chinese
Utsul - officially classified as Hui, though they have more in common with Chams, Malays and other Austronesian peoples.
Waxiang people (瓦乡族) - officially classified as Miao or Han Chinese
Ben people (本人) Khitan adherents in Shidian, Yunnan. They're not Daur people. Still use the otherwise extinct Khitan script in their cemeteries, officially classified as Han Chinese, Bai or Mongolian.
Credit
Wikipedia
Other note
Some Evenki in Northeast Russia have Khitan blood while some Central Asian like Kazakh and Kyrgyzstan have Khitan blood as result of Western Liao,some become Muslim.