Lô Lô people (Vietnam)

The Lô Lô of Vietnam is a Lolo ethnic group who speak the Mantsi language, a subgroup of the Lolo-Burmese.[1] The Lô Lô ethnic group consists of 3,134 people in Hà Giang and Cao Bằng, also including some in Mường Khương District of Lào Cai Province. They are also known as Mùn Di, Di, Màn Di, La La, Qua La, Ô Man, and Lu Lộc Màn.[2] In Vietnam, they are officially recognized as one of 54 ethnicities of the country.[3] Speakers of the Mantsi language who live across the border in China are classified as the Flowery Yi people.

Black Lolo costumes, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology

Distribution

Most of the Lô Lô settles on the Đồng Văn Plateau of Hà Giang province. The Black Lô Lô live in Lũng Cú commune and the Flowery Lô Lô live in Lũng Táo and Sủng Là communes of Đồng Văn and Mèo Vạc districts.[4]

Flowery Lolo
Red Lolo
White Lolo
Black Lolo

The Black Lolo live in Bảo Lạc District, Cao Bằng Province, just to the east of Hà Giang Province. Black Lolo (Ma Ndzi) of Cao Bằng is covered in Iwasa (2003).

Quoc (2011)

Quoc (2011) lists the following ethnic Lolo villages in northern Vietnam.

  • Meo Vac District, Ha Giang
    • Thượng Phùng township
      • bản Mỏ Phàng
      • bản Hoa Cà
    • Xin Cái township
      • Cờ Tẳng
      • Cờ Lẳng
      • Mè Lẳng
    • bản Sắng Pả A/B, Mèo Vạc
  • Dong Van District, Ha Giang
    • bản Lô Lô Chải, Lũng Cú township
    • bản Mã Là, Lũng Táo township
    • khu Đoàn Kết, Sủng Là township
  • Bao Lac District, Cao Bang
    • Hồng Trị township
      • Cốc Xả Trên/Dươi
      • Khau Cà
      • Khau Trang
      • Nà Van
      • Khuổi Khon
      • Khuổi Pao
    • bản Ngàm Lầm, Cô Ba township
  • Bao Lam District, Cao Bang
    • Đức Hạnh township

References
  1. Hsiu, Andrew. Mondzish: a new subgroup of Lolo-Burmese (PDF). The 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics. Bangkok: Center for Research in Computational Linguistics. IsCLL-14.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2012-10-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Vietnam General Census 2019
  4. "Culture of the Lo Lo on the Dong Van stone plateau". VOVworld.vn. Voice of Vietnam. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  5. Iwasa Kazue. 2003. "A Wordlist of the Ma Ndzi Language". Descriptive and Theoretical Studies in Minority Languages of East and Southeast Asia, 69-76. ELPR Publications A3-016.
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