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The Salar people, also called Salır Turkmens or Salır Turks are a Turkic ethnic minority in China who speak Salar, a Turkic language of the Oghuz sub-branch. They numbered 165,159 people in 2020, acco
Salar Turkmens in Xi'an China celebrating Sabantuy
Salar Muslim settlement, outside of Jishi Town, Xunhua, Qinghai, 1932.
A Salar Muslim with a captured fox at the market, Labrang, Xiahe County, Gansu, 1934.
Copy of the Quran brought by Salar Muslims from Samarkand in 1371. (In 2 volumes)
Turkic peoples
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Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages.
Salar people
…The Salar people, also called Salır Turkmens or Salır Turks are a Turkic ethnic minority in China who speak Salar, a Turkic language of the Oghuz sub-branch. They numbered 165,159 people in 2020, according to that year's…
Bust of Kul Tigin (AD 684–731), prince of the Second Turkic Khaganate, found in Khashaat, Arkhangai Province, Orkhon River valley. National Museum of Mongolia.
A page from "Codex Kumanicus". The Codex was designed in order to help Catholic missionaries communicate with the Kumans.
Court of Seljuk ruler Tughril III, circa 1200 CE.
Uyghur painting from the Bezeklik murals