Eastern Turkestan and China
- Continent
- Asia
- China Population
- 1,133,682,501 (1990 census). 55 official minority
nationalities; total 91,200,314, 6.5% of the population
(1990)
- Remarks
- People's Republic of China. Zhonghua Renmin Gonghe Guo.
Literacy rate 76.5% (1982 official estimate, China Daily).
Information mainly from Sebeok 1967, Voegelin and Voegelin
1977, Dreyer 1976; Wurm et al., China Atlas, 1987, J-O
Svantesson 1989; J.A. Edmondson, ed. 1990. Data accuracy
estimate: B
- Blind population
- 2,000,000
- Blind percentage
- .2 (1982 WCE)
- Blindness causes
- Glaucoma, trachoma, cataract (1978-79 estimates of 4
provinces)
- Religion
- Secular 62%, Chinese traditional religion, Buddhism,
Taoism 28%, Christian 5%, Muslim 2%, traditional religion 2%
- Deaf population
- 3,000,000 (1986 Gallaudet University)
- Deaf institutions
- 7
- Turkic Languages
- AIB AYNU
- 5,000 (1988)
- ILI ILI TURKI
- 120 approximately, or at least 30 households in China
(1980 R.F. Hahn)
- KAZ KAZAKH
- 1,111,718 in China (1990 census), including 830,000 in
Northeastern Kazakh, 70,000 in Southwestern Kazakh (1982);
6,556,000 in Kazakhstan (1979 census); 100,000 in Mongolia (1991);
3,000 in Iran; 2,000 in Afghanistan; 600 or more
in Turkey (1982); 8,000,000 total or more
- KJH KHAKAS
- 10 fluent speakers out of 875 in ethnic group in China
(1982 census); 57,500 in Russia (1979 census); 57,500 total
- KDO KIRGHIZ
- 141,549 in China (1990 census), including 50,000 in North
Kirghiz, 50,000 in South Kirghiz; 1,906,000 in Kyrghyzstan; 500
in Afghanistan; 1,137 in Turkey, arriving in 1982;
2,049,200 total. (The 1982 Chinese census figure
included a few Khakas and Akto Türkmen (Uighur)
- SRH SARIKOLI
- 20,500 (1982 estimate), out of 33,538 'Tajik' (1990
census)
- TTR TATAR
- 1,000 speakers out of 4,873 in the official
nationality in China (1990 census); 5,715,000 in Russia
(1989); 7,000 to 10,000 in USA; 350 in Afghanistan;
7,000,000 total (1991 WA)
- TUN TUVIN
- 400 in China (1990); 166,000 in Russia (1979 census);
24,700 in Mongolia (1985 estimate); 191,000 total
- UIG UYGHUR
- 7,214,431 in China (1990 census), including 4,700,000
Central Uyghur, 1,150,000 Hotan, 25,000 Lop; 245,000 in
Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan, and Uzbekistan (1986); 3,000 in
Afghanistan; 1,000 in Mongolia; 500 or more in Turkey (1981);
a few hundred families of traders in Pakistan; 7,464,000 total or more
- UZB UZBEK, NORTHERN
- 3,000 speakers out of 14,502 in the official
nationality in China (1990 census); 15,000,000 in Uzbekistan
(1986 estimate); 15,003,000 total
- YUY YUGUR, EAST
- 6,150 (1990 census)
- YBE YUGUR, WEST
- 6,150 speakers out of ethnic group of 12,297 (1990
census)
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