CHINA: 56 ETHNIC GROUPS

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The Han people are the largest ethnic group in mainland China. In 2010, 91.51% of the population were classified as Han (~1.2 billion). Besides the Han Chinese majority, 55 other ethnic (minority) groups are categorized in present-day China, numbering approximately 105 million people (8%), mostly concentrated in the bordering northwest, north, northeast, south and southwest but with some in central interior areas.
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[@RostamBahadur]

Hello from Afghanistan. The video is magnificently detailed and portrays the diversity of China in the best possible way. Great work and Well done!

[@PirateToyhouse]

OMG WOW YOU REALLY DID THIS- ❤ China’s Ethnic Groups are supa beautiful

[@DeCheQuocCaNGD6073]

What a marvelous video!❤

[@irangbeirang9441]

If I am not mistaken, I can hear some similar words with my tribe ( Zeliang) from Nagaland, North east India

[@Ononorium]

Yes because Naga people are Sino-Tibetan language speakers meaning you are related to Han Chinese, Tibetans, Qiangs, Naxi, etc. people

[@borokgamer9473]

the words of numbers are very similar to mizo

[@Davlavi]

Well done thanks.

[@ThisCanBePronounced]

Nice compilation! For anyone passing by who may not be aware, and to help explain why some of those in the list may have two names, I'd like to point out that these are *government*-recognized ethnicities and thus there is sometimes controversy about the names used and how the people actually want to be classified. There may even be some disagreement among themselves, so there's A possibility (unknown to me) that some of these examples might not represent how *all* people in that ethnicity actually speak - again, emphasis on "might" since I don't actually remember a specific example, and I only know anecdotally but directly from some of those locals how the languages can differ between them - but you can see numbers can often be very similar. After all, I do think the government tried to keep people who are linguistically-close (at least) in the same group. But I am *no* expert and it seems Andy did a good job trying to cover multiple names when applicable! Btw, Andy, by any chance, are you aware of what might be a smaller group, part of the "various other," or maybe even one of these subgroups I'm alluding to that has numbers from 1-5 in a fun little pattern? I didn't see the whole video yet but I was so sure it was either Yi or Tujia or possibly Miao. A tour guide of one of those taught us 1-5, and I just managed to remember "nebu" and "rebu," maybe "sebu," so I think that -bu ending was the pattern. In your research or experience, did you ever run into this? I've forgotten and didn't find it by searching your video. Thanks!

[@sunduncan1151]

Dai people of Xishuangbanna (Sip Song Pan Na) have similar culture to Thai, Lao, Shan and various Tai groups in Assam. I understand their languages. We’ve just celebrated the water splashing traditions during Tai New Year festivals in mid-April (called Sangkhan in Dai and Lao or Songkran in Thai). Among these 56 ethnic groups in China, Zhuang, Bouyei, Dong, Sui, Li, Gelao, Mulao and Maonan are linguistically related to Dai under Kra-Dai language family.

[@sunduncan1151]

@@totot99 It’s derived from Sanskrit “sankrānti” Here’s comparison: 🇲🇲 Mon: Sangkran 🇲🇲 Rakhine: Thonkran 🇲🇲 Burmese: Thingyan 🇹🇭 Thai: Songkran 🇰🇭 Khmer: Sangkran 🇱🇦 Lao: Sangkhan 🇨🇳 Dai: Sangkhan 🇲🇲 Shan: Sangkyan 🇮🇳 Tai Khamti: Sangken As many SEA nations and Assam consider mid-April (Mesha-Sankranti in Hindu calendar) which is the end of harvesting season as traditional new year, they often call “New Year” in native name. For example: Burmese: Hnit Thit Thai/Lao/Dai: Pii Mai Khmer: Chnam Tmey

[@lgya999]

古代整个中国沿海居住的都是越人，泰国人也是属于越人的一个部落。 我来自福建省，在台湾对面，我现在在老挝，有一些老挝语单词我可以听懂

[@siewpingtong1353]

仫佬族和毛南族，和粵语相似？！😮😅

[@yywant-qb7om]

Nice video

[@-_ayxanzeynalli_-507]

Please doing more video like this

[@davidlurhfan2005]

I'm a Chinese and I was so glad that you made this video! Thanks a lot! This stuff should be taught in Chinese schools.

[@User-vbhhnvgjmt]

There are more than 400 Native tribes and dialects in China, and it been simplified, categorized, and compressed to 56 tribes by similarities. But look like there are still more minorities that outside of those 56 tribes that probably will added in the future to the category.

[@KingsleyAmuzu]

Could you compare Iraqi Arabic and Persian, it should be or should be not surprising?

[@qwert-jn1rs]

我们有14亿人口，但是90%以上都是同一个民族，想想真是不可思议。有时候甚至觉得把天南海北的方言都叫做汉语其实不太合适，方言与方言之间应该能互相理解才对，但是广东人说的话我一个字也听不懂。反倒是丹麦语、瑞典语、挪威语听起来好像都一样，却被认为是三种语言。语言学分类有时挺让人迷惑的……

[@wonquin]

因为语言民族分类会受到政治影响，大中华思想就是会把各种不同的族群/语言强行归类为一个民族/一种语言

[@CLWu-qm9wq]

语言民族这些本来就是主观的，分类都是人按自己的不同标准创造的，东西方标准都行，比如民族这东西，有的国家就分得细，有的国家就比较粗放，各自按照各自标准来就是了，你觉得什么是语言什么是方言都可以，学者也有不同得的理论，但最终解释权还是在各国政府。

[@usshelenacl-50]

“语言还是方言”本身就不是语言学问题，而是政治问题 A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

[@martjnmao6808]

听不听得懂是主观的，我爸妈讲的都长益片的湘语，我根本听不出区别，他们却说听不懂对方所以讲普通话

[@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj]

廣東人為了民族統一放棄母語，不只廣東人，還有很多省份。如果孫中山當初是要建立粵族共和國就是另一番光景了

[@williswameyo5737]

I only understand Mandarin, since it is widely spoken and known even in Kenya, used as a technical language due to the trade deals btn China and Kenya

[@PadenGamer]

I love the Chinese people

[@Qwerka]

This video is not fully about the Chinese people; There are Mongolic, Turkic, and other people in this video

[@user-ep6sm2ev7p]

认清现实，中国人的定义没有边界。就像美国🇺🇸​@@Qwerka

[@vasiliycao3066]

@@Qwerka Since both white, black, asian, latino, indigenous people are "American" since nationality? Then why cant we call a Turkic, Mongolic people with PRC nationality "Chinese"?

[@vasiliycao3066]

@@Qwerka They surely not Han Chinese but they are Chinese as long as they are from this country

[@Qwerka]

@@vasiliycao3066 Correct, nationally they are Chinese

[@mirae9163]

Please make a video about 302 languages in China.

[@Ong.s_Jukebox]

Wow, some of these surprisingly have malay words in them.

[@slametdinatadinata645]

As the world couldn't look weirder

[@ohkeydan6357]

Those numbers not come from Malay but their native number, the gaoshan language is under formosa branch language which under austronesia language family the same language with Malay language so them have similar number.

[@joel12388]

We are Asian peoples

[@kiyomiflash2513]

Chinese is a Creole language of proto sino-tibetan and proto austro-tai

[@slametdinatadinata645]

@@kiyomiflash2513 I call them language soups.

[@siyacer]

8:29 i speak uzbek tajik and this sounds almost nothing like our language, that is very interesting

[@vonPeterhof]

The Tajiks of China speak Sarikoli and Wakhi, Pamiri languages related to those in Badakhshan. While the PRC followed Soviet policy in officially designating Pamiris as Tajiks, I don't think they ever tried to establish Tajik Persian as an official language for them.

[@yupyinwang8562]

​​@@vonPeterhofin China, Tajik language usually refers to Sarikoli while we call the Tajik language in Tajikistan just Persian.

[@TheMoroccanYB1]

Please make such a video with Russian ethnic groups

[@kmv8154]

This is going to be confusing, but the numbers in Miao in the video are spoken in the Bunu language which is a Hmongic language related to the Miao but its speakers are under the Yao ethnic group (I know right? Very confusing). A better representative of the Miao languages would be the Hmong language (Dananshan variety), the Hmu language, or the Xong language as these are the most spoken and most standard in China.

[@ilovecrystals1111]

In this video, I think it's correct. @ 1:33 Miao is Bu-Nao (Hmong) @ 3:08 Yao is Dzao Min (Mien)

[@kmv8154]

@@ilovecrystals1111 It is correct in the linguistic sense. China has basically lumped the Bunu speakers as Yao.

[@exoteeb9204]

Yeah it's confusing. It is Hmong/Miao though because I can understand it since I'm Hmong. What's interesting is I can understand the She numbers, lol.

[@kmv8154]

@@exoteeb9204 That's because She is a Hmong-Mien language too. But, it is a minority language within the She people only in Guangdong province. In other areas like the Fujian area, they spoke Shehua (a Sinitic language closely related or a sister language to Hakka).

[@kmv8154]

@@exoteeb9204 She language is hard to classify within the Hmong-Mien family as part of the Hmongic branch or its own branch, but it's generally agree to be a bit more similar to the Hmongic branch than the Mienic branch.

[@humansarecrazybeing5730]

My ancestors LHOBA ❤, their whole language is so similar to us . Love from Arunachal pradesh ❤️

[@user-lb3lg2nb8v]

fxxk

[@Alex-jm9ef]

I hear similar words with Jingpo and Nu from Mizoram, North east India

[@galfridus8413]

6:37 💀

[@Wistalee.A.A.I]

12:30 extra context/info about gaoshan languages kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKLVl56pZdprfassi=iXCD6i7E9RmyXyDQ

[@user-fb9jw1ez7u]

Taiwanese aboriginals✔️

[@jacob_and_william]

Why did so many cultures adopt Chinese numbers when everywhere else in the world number loan words are super rare

[@KingsleyAmuzu]

That's a lot of languages?

[@Qiyunwu]

Lumping all Formosan ethnicities into "Gaoshan" is hitting kinda sus

[@tianming4964]

A lot of the ethnic groups are lumped together into bigger groups even if people in those groups don't consider themselves part of the same group. Even arguably Han Chinese shouldn't be one group because the cultural, genetic, linguistic, and phenotypic difference between someone from Beijing and someone from Guangdong are very different and they don't have much in common at all.

[@Qiyunwu]

@@tianming4964 I agree with you. Southeast Asian Chinese have a habit of referring to the sub-ethnicities as "tribes". We only have an overarching "Chinese" identity because of top-down policies

[@vasiliycao3066]

@@Qiyunwu bruh this happened to every country in this world not only China

[@Qiyunwu]

@@vasiliycao3066 bruh what are you even talking about

[@yupyinwang8562]

​@@tianming4964你凭什么开除我们南方汉人汉人籍，怕又是一个北方胡人混血在这里颠倒黑白😂

[@zygnus9481]

Didn't know Gansu and Qinghai have a lot of ethnicity

[@CelestialWolf246]

Salar is like Turkish with chinese accent 😅

[@user-ji8uo2wm3d]

It's very normal because Salar people live in eastern Qinghai (formerly Gansu province) and they are definitely bilingual. They have intensive and extensive contact with ethnics groups around. Both the local Mandarin dialect and the Salar language are spoken by them and regarded as mother tongue.

[@williswameyo5737]

Uyghur is more Turkic in phonology, has a lot in common with Uzbek and Kyrgyz and Kazakh

[@joseg.solano1891]

Ethnic groups of Papua New Guinea and their languages, please

[@Qiyunwu]

video will be 10 hours long

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

BUDDHA BLESS CHINA

[@Fzggdghckcc]

Please tachawit languge

[@siyacer]

uzbek

[@visitantx]

Taiwan have Austronesians

[@luxinogen6651]

Tu language for one is 🖤 *kidding. beautiful language

[@gialinh4749]

Do Vietnam 54 ethnic groups please?

[@williswameyo5737]

Han Chinese mainly speak Mandarin and are majorly live in the North Chinese varieties like Cantonese(Yue), Wu, Shanghainese and Hakka are not of Han Chinese and are from different ethnicities

[@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj]

They think they are more Chinese than anyone else tho

[@phuclongnguyen6790]

Han Yī Èr Sān Sì Wû Liù Qī Bā Jiû Shí

[@phuclongnguyen6790]

Zhuang It Ngæi Tla:m Tlei Ha Hok çat Pet Kju Tlip

[@phuclongnguyen6790]

Uyghur Bir Ikki Üch Töt Besh Alte Yette Sekkiz Toqquz On

[@phuclongnguyen6790]

Hui Yi Er San Si V Lio Qi Ba Jio Shi

[@phuclongnguyen6790]

Miao ÆI Æau Pei La Pğa Tju Sœn Jw Cu Tju

[@phuclongnguyen6790]

Manchu Eme Juwe Ilan Duin Sunja Ninggun Nadan Jakvn Uyum Juwan

[@danielmathiasmoncadaipia8349]

ha hora en japonés

[@keltonleung3916]

Thank you for including Taiwan in our map ❤

[@siyacer]

6:37 😳

[@tommyma941]

I know what you want to say😅

[@elmechas7168]

I was searching for someone Who did hear that Thanks buddy

[@yupyinwang8562]

here we go, using American political correctness to accuse other languages in other countries. You know there are more languages than just English in the world, right?

[@wonquin]

I suppose Wu/Yue/Min/Gan/Hakka not belongs Han people. Their languages and culture are not the same

[@Kunta-Kinte002]

They are

[@Yokina-kana]

Also with other ethnic groups such Tuvans which include as a Mongols in china or Aynu or Ili Turk just include to Uyghurs or Kazakh. I guess in China have more 100 ethnic groups

[@wonquin]

@@Kunta-Kinte002 Don't confuse broad national or cultural identity with regional ethnicity. For example, among francophones, they have different ethnics, and the situation of Sinophones is similar. Chinese people in different regions have obvious regional differences in language, culture and even blood characteristics. Han is a current ethnic classification in China, but it cannot accurately represent the actual situation in China. A similar situation exists for the Hui people. They are an official ethnic group based on religious definitions, but the Hui people in different regions also have different living habits. Sometimes They are even considered Han.

[@williaml.willowfield2220]

Also, ethnicity is not a scientific category but a subjective cognition. as if Occitanian thinks they are part of french, Poles, Serbians think they are part of slavs, then so Wu, Hakka and Min are.

[@vasiliycao3066]

@@wonquin well then how you gonna oppose those Wu/Yue/Min people on internet said Northerner are barbarian, they southerner are true Han descendent? If they identify themselves as Han then why your opinion matters?

[@user-fb9jw1ez7u]

🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼 Taiwanese aboriginals, not that gaoshan

[@ElCidLee]

So called "Gaoshan" is actually Taiwanese Indigenous people, but Taiwan is actually not part of China. The Taiwanese Indigenous people aren't a group but a lots of different ethnicities.

[@tc2334]

On paper it’s a part of China and has been for quite some time.

[@ElCidLee]

@@tc2334 On paper? In wumao's wet dream.

[@ElCidLee]

@@tc2334 It's in CCP s wet dream, not on paper.

[@tc2334]

@@ElCidLee It’s not functionally part of the People’s Republic, no doubt, but saying it’s “not China” is like saying North or South Korea isn’t Korea.

[@ElCidLee]

@@tc2334 Still not China. Calling Taiwan is China is like calling Austria Germany.

[@Mohammedalm3]

Free Uyghur

[@yupyinwang8562]

free Kurdistan.

[@odilusporce8814]

From themselfs lol

[@thefallencomrade50]

Already free

[@user-yv7wn7fg2b]

This is language video but not political video

[@neige1866ss]

😅

[@FlexFacts-Learnwithshorts]

Free Tibet, Uyghur, an Hongkong!

[@Denis-oz2vo]

Hong Kong was voluntarily surrendered, from whom do you want to free it?

[@jimlee0824]

Taiwan is not part of China and also Taiwan not only one language