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TheLô Lô is aLoloish ethnic group ofVietnam.[1] The Lô Lô ethnic group consists of 3,134 people inHà Giang andCao Bằng, also including some inMường Khương District ofLào Cai Province. They are also known as Mùn Di, Di, Màn Di, La La, Qua La, Ô Man, and Lu Lộc Màn.[2] In Vietnam, they are officially recognized as one of 54 ethnicities of the country.[3] Speakers of the Mondzi orMantsi language are classified as the Flowery and BlackLolo people.
Most of the Lô Lô settles on theĐồng Văn Plateau ofHà Giang province.[4]
Black LoloThe Black Lolo live in Bảo Lạc District,Cao Bằng Province, just to the east ofHà Giang Province. Black Lolo (Ma Ndzi) of Cao Bằng is covered in Iwasa (2003).
Quoc (2011) lists the following ethnic Lolo villages in northern Vietnam.
| Austroasiatic (Vietic) | |
|---|---|
| Austroasiatic (non-Vietic) | |
| Hmong–Dao | |
| Tai–Kadai | |
| Sino-Tibetan (Chinese) | |
| Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) | |
| Malayo-Polynesian | |
| Immigrants and expatriate | |
The 54 officially recognised ethnic groups are ranked by population in their language families according to2019 census
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