Yugur

The Yugur (also Yuguren, actually Sari Yogur " Yellow Uyghur " ;裕固族Chinese, Pinyin Yùgùzú ) are one of the smallest of the 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities of the People's Republic of China. According to the last census in 2010, they include 14,378 people. They live mainly in the Autonomous County of Sunan Yugur (肃南 裕固族 自治县), which belongs to the administrative area of the city of Zhangye in Gansu Province.

The Yugur are three languages ​​used: Approximately one-third of the population speaks East Yugurisch, also called Engger ( a Mongolian language ), another third speaks West Yugurisch, also called Yohur ( a Turkic language ). The remaining third only speaks Chinese, which also serves as a lingua franca between East and West Yugur, since few individual Yugur speak both languages ​​yugurische. Higher llamas and individual Yugur formed dominate addition the Tibetan language.

Buddhism was known to the Turks already in the time of the first Turkish Empire ( 552-585/630 ) and came later with the Uyghur in the time of the Uighur city-states from the 9th century on a flower. After the extensive Islamization of Turkestan and Xinjiang in the 15th century, Buddhism lived among Turkish peoples to the 18th century, apparently only in Tuva and Gansu on. The West Yugur, the Altai, the Tuvan and the Kirghiz (only in Dorbiljin and Fuyu ) are the last four Turkish peoples who have remained faithful to Buddhism today.

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