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| Regions with significant populations | |
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 China | 40,000? (2013)[1] |
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| Tibetan language,Oirat Mongolian (Henan County Dialect [fr]) | |
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| Tibetan Buddhism andBon | |
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| Mongolic peoples | |
TheSogwo Arig (or Sog Mongols) are aMongolicethnic group claim to be descendants ofYuan dynasty rulers inHenan,Qinghai, China. The name "Sogwo" derives fromTibetan word "Sogbo" meaning "Mongol". French traveller VicomteHenri d'Ollone met with them in 1906 and the Sogwo Arig lord signed a letter with the title of "King of Henan." Vicomte d'Ollone wrote: "When the Mongols were expelled from China, the dynasty of the kings of Ho-Nan [Henan] - kings without a kingdom - retired to their steppes; and when in their turn theManchus seized the empire [1644] they utilized the Mongols for the purpose of holding theTibetans in check, for which reason a horde was sent to establish itself in this region." The Sogwo Arig Mongol lords held their royal title until the 1950s. They are nomads who live in Mongolian styleyurts.
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Underlined: the 56 officially recognised ethnic groups ranked by population in their language families according to2020 census | |||||||||||
