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	Derung - China Life - Chinese Culture
		The Derung language belongs to the Tibeto-Burmanic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages.
		It is believed that the Derung and Anung people are of the same origin and speak somewhat the same language.
		Sūn Hóngkāi 孙宏开: Dúlóngyǔ jiǎnzhì 独龙语简志 (Introduction to the Derung language; Běijīng 北京, Mínzú chūbǎnshè 民族出版社 1982).
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Derung (265 words)

	Derung - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Derung people (also spelled Drung or Dulong; own name in IPA: [tɯɹɯŋ]; Chinese: 独龙族, Pinyin: Dúlóngzú) are an ethnic group.
		The Derung language belongs to the Tibeto-Burmanic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages.
		It is believed that the Derung and Anung people are of the same origin and speak somewhat the same language.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Derung (197 words)

	People and Places
		The Derung people are residents of the ferocious Derung River Valley.
		The Derung are one of just two minority groups in China known for the custom of tattooing their face, but in recent times, this tradition has become less common.
		Still others say the Derung men considered a tattooed woman more beautiful, and would not marry one without tattoos on her face.
	easia.imb.org /peopleplaces/upg/derung.htm (188 words)

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		The Derung is one of China's smallest ethnic groups.
		One is that the tattoos are purely for decorative purposes, another that they enable women to find their souls after death, another again that it prevents them from being abducted, and yet another that they distinguish men from women.
		Tattoos on the faces of Derung women living in the middle and upper reaches of the Derung River are of similar design, and bear no relation to tribe or family.
	www.chinatoday.com.cn /English/e2004/e200402/p66.htm (465 words)

	Derung - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Derung people (also spelled Drung or Dulong; own name in IPA: [tɯɹɯŋ]; Chinese: 独龙族, Pinyin: Dúlóngzú) are an ethnic group.
		The Derung speak the Derung language, a Sino-Tibetan language.
		Their language is unwritten; in the past the Drung have transmitted messages and have made records by making notchs in trunks of wood.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Derung (537 words)

	China Folklore Photographic Association ::China Folklore :: Derung Nationality
		Derung nationality dwells at Derung Valley in Derung and Nuzu Autonomous County.
		Derung valley stretches three hundred miles, on its east, stands maestoso five thousand metres height of the Gaoli Go Mountain; and on its west crouches the Dandanglika Mountain of four thousand meters height.
		Virgin forests covers the hillside, and the Derung people hosts their free life with nature.
	www.china-fpa.org /en/china/nationality/derung.htm (247 words)

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