Template talk:Ethnic groups in China

Which spelling to use?

User:Caiqian insists on using official government spellings for the ethnic groups on this list. It seems to me that what we want is for people who see the list to know what we're talking about when we see it. Therefore, it's a good idea for us to use common English names and spellings. Almost everyone knows what "Korean" means, but almost no one who doesn't speak Chinese knows what "Chaoxian" means. As an additional point, I disagree with Caiqian's argument that "The naming has been changed and standardanized, just like Peking to Beijing, Nanking to Nanjing in wikipedia". This is actually irrelevant: we use "Nanjing" and "Beijing" because these are now more common outside of Wikipedia; if Peking and Nanking were more common, we would use those instead. Moreover, those cities are things which exist entirely inside of the PRC, whereas the ethnic groups in question live in several countries, so there's no reason why one government should be able to change their name. - Nat Krause^(Talk!) 18:00, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Why don't we just use the English names as listed here: http://english.people.com.cn/data/minorities/ethnic_minorities.html Hong Qi Gong 17:02, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't quite understand why we would use them.—Nat Krause^(Talk!) 22:27, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Because it's a standardised list that the Chinese government has, and this is a list of the officially recognised ethnic groups in China. Hong Qi Gong 22:38, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Officially recognised ethnic groups are ranked by population in their language families according to 2020 census on 2 December 2024

Language families	Standard Romanization	2020 Population[b]
Austroasiatic	Wa	430,997
Austroasiatic	Blang	127,345
Austroasiatic	Vietnamese[p]	33,112
Austroasiatic	De'ang[q]	22,354
Austronesian	Gaoshan[s]	3,479
Hmong-Mien	Miao[f]	11,067,929
Hmong-Mien	Yao	3,309,341
Hmong-Mien	She	746,385
Indo-European	Tajik[o]	50,896
Indo-European	Russian	16,136
Kra–Dai	Zhuang	19,568,546
Kra–Dai	Bouyei	3,576,752
Kra–Dai	Dong[h]	3,495,993
Kra–Dai	Li	1,602,104
Kra–Dai	Dai[j]	1,329,985
Kra–Dai	Gelao	677,521
Kra–Dai	Sui	495,928
Kra–Dai	Mulao[l]	277,233
Kra–Dai	Maonan[n]	124,092
Lolo-Burmese	Yi	9,830,327
Lolo-Burmese	Hani[i]	1,733,166
Lolo-Burmese	Lisu	762,296
Lolo-Burmese	Lahu	499,167
Lolo-Burmese	Nakhi[k]	323,767
Lolo-Burmese	Achang	43,775
Lolo-Burmese	Nu	36,575
Lolo-Burmese	Jino	26,025
Mongolic	Mongol	6,290,204
Mongolic	Dongxiang	774,947
Mongolic	Tu	281,928
Mongolic	Daur	132,299
Mongolic	Bonan	24,434
Other Sino-Tibetan	Tujia	9,587,732
Other Sino-Tibetan	Jingpo[m]	160,471
Other Sino-Tibetan	Derung	7,310
Other Sino-Tibetan	Lhoba	4,237
Others	Korean	1,702,479
Qiangic	Qiang	312,981
Qiangic	Pumi	45,012
Sinitic	Han[d]	1,284,446,389
Sinitic	Hui[e]	11,377,914
Sinitic	Bai	2,091,543
Tibetic	Tibetan[g]	7,060,731
Tibetic	Monba	11,143
Tungusic	Manchu	10,423,303
Tungusic	Xibe	191,911
Tungusic	Evenki	34,617
Tungusic	Oroqen	9,168
Tungusic	Hezhen[r]	5,373
Turkic	Uyghur	11,774,538
Turkic	Kazakh	1,562,518
Turkic	Kyrgyz	204,402
Turkic	Salar	165,159
Turkic	Yugur	14,706
Turkic	Uzbek	12,742
Turkic	Tatars	3,544