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Hui people

Хуэй · Q183573

language area per Glottologcensus counts
11,377,914
China, census 2020 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Sino-Tibetan
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in China: 11,377,914 people in the 2020 census.

Main language: Dungan. Glottolog classifies it in the Sino-Tibetan 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 · «Hui» · [1]
11,377,914

Languages and their lineage

Dungan

  1. Sino-Tibetansino1245
  2. Siniticsini1245
  3. Classical-Middle-Modern Siniticclas1255
  4. Middle-Modern Siniticmidd1354
  5. Northern Chinesenort3155
  6. Mandarinicmand1471
  7. Zhongyuanzhon1236
  8. Dungandung1253

Mandarin Chinese

  1. Sino-Tibetansino1245
  2. Siniticsini1245
  3. Classical-Middle-Modern Siniticclas1255
  4. Middle-Modern Siniticmidd1354
  5. Northern Chinesenort3155
  6. Mandarinicmand1471
  7. Mandarin Chinesemand1415

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

Han ChineseTujia peopleChinese peopleTibetansBai peopleTamang peopleHoa peopleRai peopleLahu peopleLimbu peopleQiangJingpo peopleSherpaAkhaDungansPumiNu peopleMang peopleBamar (Burmans)

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)