Mulam

The Mulam (also Mulao ; Chinese: 仫佬族, Pinyin: Mùlǎozú ) are one of the 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities of the People's Republic of China . According to the last census in 2010, they counted 216,257 people. They live mainly in the autonomous region of Guangxi Zhuang, and in the province of Guizhou . The nearly 30,000 Mulam in Guizhou Province were officially assigned this nationality only in 1993. They use their own name Mulao , written with the characters 木 佬 人 ( Mùlǎorén ) and differ significantly from the Mulam Guangxis in terms of language and culture.

The Mulam language belongs to the Kam-Sui group of Tai-Kadai languages . However, it is only spoken by a minority of the Mulam (an estimated 86,000). In addition, many Mulam speak Mandarin and / or Zhuang .

Web links

• The Mulam ethnic minority (Chinese government side)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mulam . In: M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (Eds.): Ethnologue. Languages ​​of the World. 18th edition (online), 2015.