"Yugu" redirects here. For the village in Pakistan, see Yugo, Baltistan.
Turko-Mongolic ethnic group living in China
Not to be confused with Uyghurs.
Yugur
A Yugur family in Lanzhou, Gansu, 1944
Total population
18,000 (est.)
Regions with significant populations
Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, Gansu, China
Languages
Western Yugur, Eastern Yugur
Religion
Tibetan Buddhism
Tengrism (Shamanism)
Related ethnic groups
Old Uyghurs
Salars
other Turkic and Mongolic peoples
The Yugurs, Yughurs, Yugu (Chinese: 裕固族; pinyin: Yùgùzú; Western Yugur: Sarïg Yogïr; Eastern Yugur: Šera Yogor), traditionally known as Yellow Uyghurs,[1] are a Turkic-Mongolic ethnic group and one of China's 56 officially recognized ethnic groups, consisting of 16,719 persons, according to the 2000 census.[2] The Yugur live primarily in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County in Gansu. They are mostly Tibetan Buddhists.[3][4] The majority of Yugurs speak a Turkic language, while Mongolic and Chinese are also used in eastern provinces.
^Justin Jon Rudelson; Justin Ben-Adam Rudelson (1997). Oasis Identities: Uyghur Nationalism Along China's Silk Road. Columbia University Press. pp. 206–. ISBN 978-0-231-10786-0.
^Justin Keith Brown, Sarah Ogilvie (2009). Concise encyclopedia of languages of the world. Elsevier. p. 1142. ISBN 978-0-08-087774-7. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
^Justin Ben-Adam Rudelson, Justin Jon Rudelson (1997). Oasis identities: Uyghur nationalism along China's Silk Road. Columbia University Press. p. 178. ISBN 0-231-10786-2. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
^Wong, Edward (28 September 2016). "Modern Life Presents Nomads of China's Steppe With a 'Tragic Choice'". New York Times.
endonym of the Yugur. There are approximately 4,600 Turkic-speaking Yugurs. Besides similarities with Uyghuric languages, Western Yugur also shares a number...
diverse, with large populations of Han Chinese, Yugurs, and Tibetans, with none comprising a majority. Sunan Yugur Autonomous County consists of three separate...
Yugur language may refer to: Western Yugur language, a Turkic language Eastern Yugur language, a Mongolic language This disambiguation page lists articles...
Eastern Yugur is a Mongolic language spoken within the Yugur nationality. The other language spoken within the same community is Western Yughur, which...
specific ethnic groups include Tibetan Buddhism among Tibetans, Mongols and Yugurs, and Islam among the Hui, Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz peoples, and other...
Inner Mongolia the Bonan of Gansu Province some of the Yugurs of Gansu Province (other Yugurs speak a Turkic language) the Kuangjia Hui of Qinghai Province...
period of China Later Tang Later Jin Later Han Salars, Uyghurs, Western Yugurs, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and other ethnic groups in China that speak Turkic languages...
of the modern Western Yugur language. The term "Old Uyghur" used for this alphabet is misleading because Qocho, the Uyghur (Yugur) kingdom created in 843...
became subjects of the Western Xia; their descendants are the Yugurs of Gansu. The Western Yugur language is the descendant of Old Uyghur. The Kingdom of Qocho...
Autonomous Region Yugur, or Yellow Uyghur, another ethnic group of China Western Yugur language, the Turkic language spoken by the Yugur people and descending...
Union in 1924. Descendants are found among the people in Mongolia and the Yugurs in Gansu, China, and little bit in the Karakalpaks and the Uzbegs.[citation...
as Yugurs (or Yogir, Yugur, and Sary Uyghurs, literally meaning "yellow Uyghurs") and are distinct from modern Uyghurs. In AD 1028–1036, the Yugurs were...
followed the Great Wall of China, and investigated a mysterious tribe known as Yugurs. From Lanzhou, the provincial capital, Mannerheim headed south into Tibetan...
ethnicity, the Western Yugur of Gansu, identify themselves as the "Yellow Uyghur" (Sarïq Uyghur). Some scholars say the Yugurs' culture, language and...
as the Enets, the Nenets, the Huns, the Xiongnu, the Scythians, and the Yugur – inhabited various parts of Siberia. The Afanasievo and Tashtyk cultures...
Dongxiangs, 289,565 Mongours, 132,000 Daurs, 20,074 Baoans, and 14,370 Yugurs.[citation needed] Most of them live in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region...
significant period. After the fall of the Uyghur Khaganate, a Buddhist Yugur (Uyghur) state called the Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom was established by migrating...
Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom in Gansu where their descendants are the modern day Yugurs and Qocho Kingdom in Turpan, Xinjiang. The Kangar Union (Qanghar Odaghu)...
ethnic minorities in Northwestern China (Uyghurs, Huis, Dongxiangs, Bonans, Yugurs and Salars) and that these cluster closely with other East Asian people...
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