The Nasu people are an ethnic group

Ethnic group

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 in the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

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. They are divided into Eastern Nasu with more than 400,000 persons, Jinghong Nasu with more than 20,000, Panxian Nasu with more than 300,000, Southern Nasu with more than 100,000 and the Wusa Nasu. They are from Yunnan

Yunnan

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 and Sichuan

Sichuan

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. They are classified as Yi people

Yi people

The Yi or Lolo people are an ethnic group in China, Vietnam, and Thailand. Numbering 8 million, they are the seventh largest of the 55 ethnic minority groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China...

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Nasu language

Nasu language

Nasu , or Nasu proper, is a Loloish language spoken by a quarter million Yi people of China. It is one of six Yi languages recognized by the government of China. Unlike most written Yi languages, it uses the Pollard rather than Yi script....

 (Eastern Yi) is one of the Lolo–Burmese languages belonging to the Tibeto-Burman languages

Tibeto-Burman languages

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Among the Eastern Nasu and the Wusa Nasu, a significant minority is Christian

Christian

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