| Dungan | | Total population | | 110,000 | | Regions with significant populations | | China , Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia | | Language | | Dungan The Dungan language (autonym: ХуÑйзў йүÑн [HuÄ—yzÅ yüyan]; ä¸œå¹²è¯ [æ±å¹²èªž] in Chinese) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the 50,000 Dungan or (Hui) of Central Asia. ...
| | Religion | | Islam Islam (Arabic: ) is a monotheistic religion based upon the teachings of Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure. ...
| | Related ethnic groups | | Hui The Hui people (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) are a Chinese ethnic group, typically distinguished by their practice of the Islamic religion. ...
| Dungan (Traditional Chinese: 東干族; pinyin: dōng gān zú; Russian: Дунгане) is a term used in territories of the former Soviet Union to refer to a Muslim people of Chinese origin. Turkic-speaking peoples in Xinjiang Province in China also refer to members of this ethnic group as Dungans. In both China and the former Soviet republics where they reside, however, members of this ethnic group call themselves Hui. In the censuses of Russia and the former Soviet Central Asia, the Hui are enumerated separately from Chinese, and are labelled as Dungans. In the former Soviet Union, Dungans are found especially in Kazakhstan (36,900 according to the 1999 census [1]), Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Some also reside in Russia (801 according to 2002 census, mostly in Tatarstan.[2]) Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ...
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A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ...
The Hui people (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) are a Chinese ethnic group, typically distinguished by their practice of the Islamic religion. ...
Russian Census of 2002 (Russian: ) was the first census of Russian Federation carried out on October 9, 2002. ...
The Republic of Tatarstan (Russian: ; Tatar: ) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). ...
History
 The gate of the Dungan Mosque in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan. The Cyrillic sign is in Kyrgyz; the Arabic-script sign appears to mostly match the Cyrilic Kyrgyz text The Dungan in the former Soviet republics are Hui who fled China during the Hui Minorities' War in the 19th century. The name Dungan is of obscure origin, but is probably from Turkic döñän ("one who turns") or the Chinese term for "eastern Gansu", a province of China to which many of the Dungan can trace their ancestry, however the character gan (干) is different from that used in the name of the province (甘). The Hui people, distributed across much of western and central China, are also referred to as "Dungans" by Turkic and Tajik peoples. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 253 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Dungan ...
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Karakol (black wrist in Kyrgyz) is a city of about 75,000, located near the eastern tip of lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan and about 150 km from the Kyrgyz-Chinese border. ...
The Hui Minorities War, is the modern term used by the Peoples Republic of China for what used to be called the Dungan Revolt or Muslim Rebellion. ...
Gansu (Simplified Chinese: 甘肃; Traditional Chinese: 甘肅; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kan-su, Kansu, or Kan-suh) is a province located in the northwest of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
A province, in the context of China, is a translation of sheng (çœ shÄ›ng), which is an administrative division of China. ...
As Hong (2005) notes, "[t]he Dungan people derive from China's Hui people, and now live mainly in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Their population is over 110,000. This people has now developed a separate ethnicity outside China, yet they have close relations with the Hui people in culture, ethnic characteristics and ethnic identity."
Language - Main article: Dungan language
The Dungan language is closely related to the Shaanxi dialect of Mandarin Chinese, but uses the Cyrillic script and has only three tones instead of four. Dungan also contains many loanwords from Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. The Dungan language (autonym: ХуÑйзў йүÑн [HuÄ—yzÅ yüyan]; ä¸œå¹²è¯ [æ±å¹²èªž] in Chinese) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the 50,000 Dungan or (Hui) of Central Asia. ...
(Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Shǎnxī; Wade-Giles: Shan-hsi; Postal map spelling: Shensi) is a north-central province of the Peoples Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains across the...
This article is on all of the Northern Chinese dialects. ...
The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ...
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Arabic ( or just ), is the largest member of the family of Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic. ...
Persian (local name: FÄrsÄ« or PÄrsÄ«) is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ...
Unlike other minority nationalities in Central Asia, such as the Koreans, nearly all of the Dungan report that they continue to use their ethnic language as their mother tongue. More than two-thirds of the Dungan also speak Russian, and a small proportion can speak Kyrgyz or other languages belonging to the titular nationalities of the countries where they live. [1] Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Кыргыз тили) is a Northwestern Turkic language, and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. ...
Culture The Dungan are primarily farmers, growing rice and vegetables such as sugar beets. Many also raise dairy cattle. In addition, some are involved in opium production. The Dungan tend to be endogamous. Opium, or opïum is a narcotic analgesic drug which is obtained from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L. or the synonym paeoniflorum). ...
pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe ...
The Dungan are famous for their hospitality and hold many ceremonies and banquets to preserve their culture. They have elaborate and colorful observances of birthdays, weddings, and funerals. In addition, schools have museums to preserve other parts of their culture, such as embroidery, traditional clothing, silver jewelry, paper cuts of animals and flowers and tools.
Religion The large majority of Dungan are Hanafi Muslim. Many Dungan villages contain a mosque run by village elders. Hanafi (Arabic ØÙ†ÙÙŠ): (sometimes known in English as Hanafites or Hanifites)-- (cf Malikite, Shafiite, Hanbalite for the other schools of thought)--.is one of the four schools of thought (Madhabs) or jurisprudence (Fiqh) within Sunni Islam. ...
Notes and Citations - ^ Aleksandr Nikolaevich Alekseenko (Александр Николаевич Алексеенко), "Republic in the Mirror of the Population Census" («Республика в зеркале переписей населения») Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniia. 2001, No. 12. pp. 58-62.
- ^ http://www.perepis2002.ru/index.html?id=17
General References - Allès, Elisabeth. 2005. "The Chinese-speaking Muslims (Dungans) of Central Asia: A Case of Multiple Identities in a Changing Context," Asian Ethnicity 6, No. 2 (June): 121-134.
- Hong, Ding. 2005. "A Comparative Study on the Cultures of the Dungan and the Hui People," Asian Ethnicity 6, No. 2 (June): 135-140.
- Svetlana Rimsky-Korsakoff Dyer. 1979. "Soviet Dungan kolkhozes in the Kirghiz SSR and the Kazakh SSR (Oriental monograph series)". Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 0909879117.
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See also Karakol (black wrist in Kyrgyz) is a city of about 75,000, located near the eastern tip of lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan and about 150 km from the Kyrgyz-Chinese border. ...
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