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果敢族 /ကိုးကန့်လူမျိုး | |
|---|---|
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Kokang | |
| Languages | |
| Southwestern Mandarin,Burmese,Standard Chinese | |
| Religion | |
| Theravada Buddhism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Burmese Chinese,Overseas Chinese,Chin Haw |
TheKokang people (Chinese:果敢族;pinyin:Guǒgǎn zú;Burmese:ကိုးကန့်လူမျိုး) areMandarin-speakingHan Chinese[1] native toKokang inMyanmar.[2] The Kokang people belong to theSino-Tibetan family and are an officially recognized ethnic group of theRepublic of the Union of Myanmar.[3]
The name Kokang derives from the Burmeseကိုးကန့်, which itself derives from theShanၵဝ်ႈ (kāo, "nine") +ၵူၼ်း (kúun, "family") orၵၢင် (kǎang, "guard").
In 1997, it was estimated that the Kokang Chinese, together with more recently immigrated Han Chinese fromYunnan,China, constituted 30 to 40 percent of Myanmar's ethnic Chinese population. They constitute around 0.1% ofMyanmar's population.[4]
Most Kokang are descendants of Chinese speakers who migrated to what is nowShan State, Myanmar in the 18th century. In the mid-17th century, theYang clan formed a feudal state called Kokang in theShan States. From the 1960s to 1989, the area was ruled by theCommunist Party of Burma, and after the dissolution of that party in 1989 it became a special region of Myanmar.
TheMyanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) is a Kokang insurgent group. In August 2009 they clashed withTatmadaw soldiers in a conflict fanned by controversial interests known as the2009 Kokang incident,[5] followed by further skirmishes during the2015 Kokang offensive.
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