Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Salar people (Salar: Salır; Chinese: 撒拉族; pinyin: Sālāzú) are an ethnic minority of China who largely speak Salar in the Oghuz branch of Turkic languages. The Salar people numbered 104503 people in the last census of 2000. They live mostly in the Qinghai-Gansu border region on both sides of the Yellow River namely in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County and Hualong Hui Autonomous County of Qinghai and the adjacent Jishishan Bonan Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County of Gansu.
