Chinese Tatars
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| Chinese Tatars |
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| Total population |
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5,000 (2000 est.) |
| Regions with significant populations |
| China: Xinjiang |
| Languages |
| Mandarin, Tatar |
| Religions |
| Predominantly Islam, minorities are Buddhist and Orthodox Christian |
| History of Islam in China |
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History |
| Architecture |
| Major figures |
| People Groups |
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Hui • Salar • Uygur |
| Islamic Cities/Regions |
| Culture |
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Islamic Association of China |
The Chinese Tatars (塔塔尔族 Tǎtǎěrzú) form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.
Their ancestors are Volga Tatar tradesmen who settled mostly in Xinjiang.
The number of Chinese Tatars is close to 5000 as of 2000, and they live mainly in the cities of Aletai, Changji, Yili, Urumchi, Tacheng and other places in Xinjiang.
Chinese Tatars speak an archaic variant of the Tatar language, free from 20th-century loanwords and use Arabic variant of the Tatar alphabet, declined in USSR in 1930s.
Note that the Chinese had often used the term Tatars or Tazi/Dazi in Chinese in a derogatory manner to distinguish the non-Han groups from the North[citation needed], such as the Mongols and Jurchens/Manchus from the majority Han population, especially in those times when China was invaded by these groups, for example during the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Paul and Bernice Noll's Window on the World - List of ethnic groups in China and their population sizes
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