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Speak A Turkic: The largest Altaic group is formed b; Turkic-speak a Turkicing Uigurs of Kansu province of the Sinkiang Uigur Autonomous Region merly referred to as Chinese Turkestan. Sin has a population of over 6 million people of this number 80% are Uigur. The rema people are the nomadic Kazakhs, Kirghiz, Uz and Salar who mostly speak a Turkic Turkic langt Although the area is among the driest ii world, the oases of the Tarim Basin su nearly 4 million Uigurs who live by ra farming and who grow crops such as wheat and cotton. They have their own written language and are Muslim.
The Lolo tribesmen, who speak a Turkic a T Burman language and live in the mountains strongly and successfully resisted the Cl They are polytheistic and animistic. The farm by dry agriculture, frequently aband soil exhausted by extensive double cropping herd sheep and goats. The Lolo of Yunnai like those of Szechwan, have intermarried the Chinese and have become highly Sini
The languages of several large mi groups in China belong to the Altaic lan; family. Three main branches are represei the Mongolian, Turkic, and Tungusic.
Some groups are more difficult to classify. Over one million Koreans live in the Yenpien Korean autonomous district in Kirin province. They have retained their own customs, which are similar to the Chinese, and- although their language is not Sinitic, the written language contains many Chinese characters. The Hui of Ninghsia Hui Autonomous Region and of other parts of the northwest are Chinese Muslims. For the most part they are descendants of Turkic-Uigur soldiers and merchants who entered China over a thousand years ago. They mainly speak a Turkic Chinese and number about 3.5 million. |
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