Utsul
Sign in to saveThe Utsuls ([]; ) are a Chamic-speaking ethnic group which lives on the island of Hainan and are considered one of the People's Republic of China's unrecognized ethnic groups. They are found on the southernmost tip of Hainan, in the two villages of Huihui (回辉) and Huixin (回新) of Tianya, Sanya.
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- Ethnic group.group
- ملايو ثات
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Tsat/ Hainan Champa Utsul
- Ethnic group.pop
- At least 8,500
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Sanya, Hainan
- Ethnic group.langs
- Tsat, Standard Chinese, Hainanese
- Ethnic group.rels
- Predominantly Sunni Islam
- Ethnic group.related
- Chams and other Austronesian peoples, Hlai
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The Utsuls ([]; ) are a Chamic-speaking ethnic group which lives on the island of Hainan and are considered one of the People's Republic of China's unrecognized ethnic groups. They are found on the southernmost tip of Hainan, in the two villages of Huihui (回辉) and Huixin (回新) of Tianya, Sanya.
==History== The Utsuls are thought to be descendants of Cham refugees who fled their homeland of Champa in what is now modern Central Vietnam to escape the Vietnamese invasion. After the Vietnamese completed the conquest of Cham in 1471, sacking Vijaya, the last capital of the Cham kingdom, a Cham prince and about 1,000 followers moved to Hainan, where the Ming dynasty allowed them to stay. Several Chinese accounts record Cham arriving on Hainan even earlier, from 986, shortly after the Vietnamese captured the earlier Cham capital of Indrapura in 982, while other Cham refugees settled in Guangzhou.
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