Salar
Most of the 90,000 Salar live in the eastern portion of the Qinghai Province,
which is located in central China. They speak their own language, also called
Salar. Salar belongs to one of the Turkic groups of the Altaic language family,
and is very closely related to Uighur and Uzbek.
Although their exact origin is not known, the Salar appear to be descendants
of a Turkmen tribe that originated near Samarkand, the former capital of
Uzbekistan. It is believed that their ancestors migrated to their present
regions during the Mongolian dynasty (1279 to 1368).
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