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Blang people

Буланы · Q881533

language area per Glottologcensus counts
127,345
China, census 2020 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Austroasiatic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in China: 127,345 people in the 2020 census.

Main language: Blang. Glottolog classifies it in the Austroasiatic family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

China2020 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Blang» · [1]
127,345

Languages and their lineage

Blang

  1. Austroasiaticaust1305
  2. Khasi-Palaungkhas1273
  3. Palaungicpala1352
  4. East Palaungiceast2331
  5. Waicwaic1245
  6. Bulangicbula1260
  7. Blangblan1242

U

  1. Austroasiaticaust1305
  2. Khasi-Palaungkhas1273
  3. Palaungicpala1352
  4. East Palaungiceast2331
  5. Angkuicangk1246
  6. Uuuuu1243

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Vietnamese peopleKhmer peopleStieng peopleBru peopleGie Trieng peopleKatu peoplePalaung peopleBrau people

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. China, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)