Population: 10,569
Major area of distribution: South Yugur Autonomous County and huangnibao area of Jiuquan City in Gansu province
Religion: Yellow Lamaism
Language
For historical reasons, three different languages are spoken by the Yugur people: a Turkic Austronesian of the Altaic Phylum (Raohul), which is used by the Yugur people in the western part of the autonomous county; a Mongolian Austronesian of the same language family (Engle), used by those in the eastern part of the county; and, the Chinese language, used by Yugur in Huangnibao. The Yugur languages do not have their own characters, and Chinese characters are the written language of this area.