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Hmongic Guizhou Dongjiaren
Topic Started: Jan 31 2011, 07:57:15 PM (254 Views)
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Well, what kind of population is this? According to the wikipedia article about "Gejia language", the language of a linguistically related population, they "speak a West Hmongic language". They are claimed to be different from other members of the She minzu. But I couldn't find out much more.

In "贵州南部地区苗族、畲族和汉族头面部形态特征调查" Sun Si et al. report the data of 173 (male) + 159 (female) Dongjia people in Guizhou. Some pecularities of this samples:
- mild expression of the Mongol fold, which occurs in 96%; this is in a sharp contrast to the Han of southern Guizhou, in whom the extremes (no Mongol fold and marked Mongol fold) are more common.
- relatively many wavy and concave noses like Guizhou Miao and as opposed to Guizhou Han (whose noses are more often straight or convex).
- hair shape is straight in about 80% of their samples, i.e., straighter than in Guizhou Han and Miao
- eye brows are quite weakly developed when compared to those of the two other populations
- beard growth is weaker than in Guizhou Miao but still a bit more marked than in Guizhou Han
- eye colour is, IMO surprisingly, light; i.e., it does not balance out the lack of eye brows

There is a master thesis by Dong Bo, "From the DongJia people to the She minority", according to which these were probably major locations of the 41524 Dongjiaren in 1996...
- Majiang county: 32366 (including the population of Liubao village, which seems to be of scientific interest because of the Dongjia make up 78% of the population there)
- Fuquan county: 4583
- Dujun town: 2929
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