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Can it be they are Tuvans? Mikkalai 01:13, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

- The Tuvans are a seperate unrelated ethnic group. Abstrakt 04:50, 9 December 2005 (UTC) --- The Tuvans are Turkic ethnic group; Chinese Tuvans live in Xinjiang and are considered by PRC government as cpart of Mongol (Mengguzu) nationality. Monguors are Mongolic people, but are viewed in China as separate group. They live in Qinghai province, So there is only simple similarity between names of this groups and no direct relation. Uncle Martin.

[edit] Language

"They don't have a script until recently." That's not correct. They used literary Mongolian and there were several attempts to create a writing system for the Tu language. Until today, there is no officially recognised writing system. Babelfisch 05:33, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] move to Monguor?

I wonder if we should move this page to Monguor? As a general rule, we should be using the more common English names for people and things, which is probably "Tu" in this case. However, I also think that, where no form of the name is clearly predominant, we should favour the name the people themselves use. I wonder which category this falls into? - Nat Krause^(Talk!) 00:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] materials available at internet archive:

THE MONGUORS OF THE KANSU-TIBETAN FRONTIER

Author: Louis M. J. Schram

http://www.archive.org/details/TheMonguorsOfTheKansu-tibetanFrontier

Learning English in Mongghul: Part 9 (1995)

http://www.archive.org/details/Mongghul —Preceding unsigned comment added by Umay (talk • contribs) 09:19, 3 May 2008 (UTC)