The Tebbu people (Chinese: Diebu ren, 迭部人) are a Tibetan-Himalayan

ethnic group An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...

indigenous to the Min Mountains along the Bailong River and its tributaries in Tewo County and possibly the eastern part of

Zhugqu County Zhouqu County (; ) is a county in the eastern extremity of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Gansu Province, the People's Republic of China, with the Bailong River flowing through its confines; it borders Sichuan province to ...

in southern

Gansu Province Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibeta ...

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...

. They speak the

Amdo Tibetan Amdo Tibetan (; also called ''Am kä'') is the Tibetic language spoken in Amdo (now mostly in Qinghai, some in Ngawa and Gannan). It has two dialects, the farmer dialect and the nomad dialect. Amdo is one of the three branches of traditional cl ...

language. The Tebbu population is currently estimated at more than 20,000 individuals.

References

* "The Land of the Tebbus", Joseph Rock, ''Geographical Journal'', 81.2, February 1933, pages 108-110. * ''China on the Wild Side: Explorations in the China-Tibet Borderlands'', Volume 2: Qinghai and Gansu, Joseph Rock, Caravan Press, 2008. {{ISBN, 978-9889746056.
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Ethnic groups in China