There are dozens of ethnic groups in

Guizhou Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to t ...

province of China that are not officially recognized. These ethnic groups and their languages include: * Caijia 蔡家 *Chuanlan 穿兰: over 300,000 people classified as

Han Han may refer to: Ethnic groups * Han Chinese, or Han People (): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group. ** Han Taiwanese (): the name for the ethnic group of the Taiwanese p ...

, in

Anshun Anshun () is a prefecture-level city located in southwestern Guizhou province, southwest China, near the Huangguoshu Waterfall, the tallest in China. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 2,297,339. The city proper had a population of 7 ...

Prefecture; many also speak Bouyei and Miao *

Chuanqing The Chuanqing people () are an East Asian ethnic group. According to popular ethnogenesis, they are descended from Han Chinese soldiers who were sent to Guizhou area in the eighth and ninth centuries to quell Miao rebellions. The Chuanqings, h ...

穿青: 500,000–1,000,000 people classified as

, mostly in Zhijin and Nayong, but also in Dafang, Shuicheng, Guanling, Qingzhen, Puding, and Liuzhi counties of Guizhou; has some non-Chinese loanwords *Limin 里民: 50,000–100,000 people classified as Yi and sometimes as Li, in Liuzhi, Guanling, Pu'an, Xingren, Zhenning, and Anlong counties of western Guizhou; most have shifted to Southwestern Mandarin, with few Limin speakers remaining. Also in Qinglong (''Qinglong County Gazetteer 1993''). Wang (2011) has researched ethnic Limin villages including Fanhua Village 凡化村, Pogong Township 坡贡镇,

Guanling County Guanling Buyei and Miao Autonomous County (; Bouyei: ) is an autonomous county in Anshun City, in the southwest of Guizhou Province, China. Area: Population: 334,900 in 2008. Postal Code: 561300. Telephone Area Code: 0853 The county governme ...

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Congjiang County Congjiang County () is a county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. It is divided by the Duliu River (), the upper reaches of the Liu River, and borders Guangxi to the south. It is an important transit point a ...

, Guizhou. Hou Jingrong (2009) considers the Liujia language to be a

Yue Chinese Yue () is a group of similar Sinitic languages spoken in Southern China, particularly in Liangguang (the Guangdong and Guangxi provinces). The name Cantonese is often used for the whole group, but linguists prefer to reserve that name for t ...

dialect. In Guangxi, Liujia is spoken in Sanjiang County (in Guyi 古宜, Zhouping 周坪, and Chengcun 程村) and Rongshui County (in Dalang and Danian ). * Longjia 龙家 * Lu 卢: 3,000–6,000 people classified as

Manchu The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name. The Later Jin (1616–1636) and ...

, in Dafang, Qianxi (in Fuyuan 附源村 of Jinpo 金坡乡), and Bijie counties, Guizhou; also in Anluo 安洛,

Jinsha County Jinsha () is a county in northwestern Guizhou province, China, bordering Sichuan to the north across the Chishui River. It is the easternmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Bijie Bijie () is a prefecture-level city in nor ...

;Guizhou Province Gazetteer: Ethnic Gazetteer ��州省志. 民族志(2002). Guiyang: Guizhou Ethnic Publishing House ��州民族出版社 the Lu now speak Southwestern Mandarin. In Qianxi County, the ethnic Manchu (pop. 916 as of 1990) are known as Lu'eren 禄额子, Luren 禄人, and Yuanren 原人, and are distributed in Huangni Township 黄泥乡 of Shachang District 沙厂区, as well as Dashui 大水, Gamu 嘎木乡, and Shachang 沙厂镇. Subdivisions include the White Luren 白卢人 and Black Luren 黑卢人. *Nanjing people 南京人: 120,000 people classified as Bai, in Bijie, Dafang (in Shagou 沙沟村 and Dongfeng 东丰村), Liupanshui, Qianxi, Weining, Jinsha, Nayong, Anshun, Qingzhen, and Zhijin counties of western Guizhou; some speak the

Longjia language Longjia (autonym: ') is a Sino-Tibetan language of Guizhou, China related to Caijia and Luren.Hölzl, Andreas. 2021Longjia (China) - Language Contexts ''Language Documentation and Description'' 20, 13-34. Longjia may already be extinct (Zhao 20 ...

. Ertang Township 二塘乡, Zhongshan District 钟山区 has a population of 2,262 Nanjingren, with a total of 2,936 in Liupanshui prefecture; historical names include Longjiazi 龙家子/龙架子 and Longgedou 龙格兜.''Liupanshui City Ethnic Gazetteer'' 六盘水市志：民族志 (2003:186-187). Their autonym in Qianxi County is Xienan 写南, and Xiejing 写京 in Dafang County (''Zhenxiong County Gazetteer'' 1987:447). In

Xixiu District Xixiu District () is a district in the prefecture-level city of Anshun, Guizhou Province, China. The district spans an area of 1,705 square kilometres, and has a population of 765,399 people as of the 2010 Chinese Census. Geography The district ...

, the Nanjingren are also called the Yingtian 应天. In Zhenxiong County, Yunnan, their autonyms include Awupu 阿乌浦 and Awudu 阿乌堵 (You 2013:134).You Weiqiong ��伟琼 2013. ''Classifying ethnic groups of Yunnan'' ��南民族识别研究 Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House ��族出版社 * Qixingmin 七姓民 *Shenzhou 神州: 4,000 (1999) people classified as

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Prefecture; has some non-Chinese loanwords *

Tunbao The Tunbao or Tunpu () are an ethnic subgroup of the Han, located in Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, China. The Tunbao are descended from ethnic Han who were part of an army sent on an expedition to Guizhou during the reign of the Ming dynasty's Ho ...

屯堡: archaic Chinese dialect spoken in

Prefecture. Long, et al. (2011)Long Yiteng, Wu Weijun, Song Yi, Ming Shengrong ��异腾, 吴伟军, 宋宜, 明生荣 2011. ''A study of the Tunbao dialect of Central Guizhou'' ��中屯堡方言研究 Chengdu: Southwest Jiaotong University Press ��南交通大学出版社 covers the Tunbao dialect of Jiuxi Village, Daxiqiao Township,

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