The Mang are an ethnic group

Ethnic group

An ethnic group is a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage, often consisting of a common language, a common culture and/or an ideology that stresses common ancestry or endogamy...

 living primarily in Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

, where they are one of that nation's 54 officially recognized ethnic groups. There are also about 500 Mang living in the Yunnan

Yunnan

Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately and with a population of 45.7 million . The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with...

 province of southern China

China

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, where they are officially termed an undistinguished nationality.

The Mang language

Mang language

Mang is an Austro-Asiatic language of Vietnam and across the border in China....

 is part of the Pakanic

Pakanic languages

The Pakanic languages, also known as Palyu and Mangic, are a tentative recently identified branch of endangered Austro-Asiatic languages...

 branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family.

Further reading

• Tan Sijie, et. al. 2007. "Y-chromosome polymorphisms define the origin of the Mang, an isolated population in China." In Annals of Human Biology, Vol. 34, No. 5, Pages 573-581.

See also

• Bolyu language
  Bolyu language
  The Bolyu language is an Austro-Asiatic language of the Pakanic branch . In 1984, Bolyu was first studied by Liang Min of the Nationalities Research Institute in Beijing...
  
  
• Bugan language
  Bugan language
  Bugan, Bogan, Pakan, or Buzhui is an Austro-Asiatic language. The existence of the Bugan language was not known by the rest of world until recently. There are about 3000 speakers, mostly in some villages in southern Guangnan and northern Xichou , Yunnan Province, China...
  
  
• Pakanic languages
  Pakanic languages
  The Pakanic languages, also known as Palyu and Mangic, are a tentative recently identified branch of endangered Austro-Asiatic languages...
  
  
• List of ethnic groups in Vietnam

External links

• Mang language page from Ethnologue site