裕固族

Part of their ancestry goes back to the 回鹘 who moved into the Gansu corridor after their steppe khaganate fell in 840. Most live in 肃南裕固族自治县. They speak two unrelated languages, a Turkic one in the west and a Mongolic one in the east, and most follow Tibetan Buddhism.

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The name was chosen in 1953 to sound like their own name for themselves, Yogur, with characters that wish them well: 裕 "prosperous" and 固 "secure".