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Salar people (Salar: Salır, Turkic: Salar, Chinese: 撒拉族, Pinyin: Sālāzú) are a Turkic people. Their...

Salar people (Salar: Salır, Turkic: Salar, Chinese: 撒拉族, Pinyin: Sālāzú) are a Turkic people. Their language belongs to the Oghuz group, along with the Turkish language and Turkmen language. The Salars are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. The Salar people numbered 104,503 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 (循化撒拉族自治縣) and Hualong Hui Autonomous County (化隆回族自治縣) of Qinghai and the adjacent Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County of Gansu. There are also Salars in Xinjiang (in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州). Salar's ancestors were migrating Oghuz Turks who intermarried with the Han Chinese, Tibetans, and Hui. They are a patriarchal agricultural society and Muslims. According to Salar tradition, they are the descendants of the Salyr tribe, belonging to the Turkic Oghuz tribe of the Seljuk Turks. They also claimed to be descendants of Oghuz Khan. The word "Salyr meant "those who wave swords, spears and hammers everywhere". During the Tang Dynasty period, the Salyr tribe dwelt