What is Tibetan people?
[[File:Three monks chanting in Lhasa, 1993.jpg|thumb|250px|Three monks chanting in [[Lhasa]], 1993.]] [[File:TAR-TAP-TAC.png|thumb|250px|Areas in which concentrations of ethnic Tibetans live within [[China]].]] The '''Tibetan people''' ({{lang-bo|བོད་པ་}}) are an [[ethnic group]] that is [[Indigenous people|native]] to [[Tibet]]. They number about 7.8 million. In 2014, there were 7.5 million Tibetans living in Tibet and the 10 [[Autonomous prefectures of China|Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures]] in [[Gansu]], [[Qinghai]] and [[Sichuan]]. Large populations of Tibetans live outside of Tibet, in other parts of [[China]], and in [[India]], [[Nepal]] and [[Bhutan]]. Tibetans speak the [[Tibetic languages]]. Many of these languages are cannot be [[mutual intelligibility|understood by each other]]. These languages are also spoken by people in [[Baltistan]], [[Ladakh]], Nepal, [[Sikkim]] and Bhutan. The main language among Tibetans in Tibet is the [[Tibetan language|Central Tibetan language]]. Most Tibetans practice [[Tibetan Buddhism]]. Some practice the native [[Bön]] religion. There is a small [[Tibetan Muslims|Muslim]] minority.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.islambook.net/xueshu/list.asp?id=2379 |title=卡力岗现象及其分析—— 中文伊斯兰学术城 |publisher=Islambook.net |accessdate=21 June 2012 |language=Chinese |archive-date=12 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312092158/http://www.islambook.net/xueshu/list.asp?id=2379 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The American botanist [[Joseph Rock]] saw the fighting between the Hui Muslim warlord Ma Qi and the Tibetan Buddhist of [[Labrang monastery]]. Even more brutal fighting broke out when war between [[Zhang Zuolin]]'s [[Fengtian clique]] happened against the [[Guominjun]] warlord [[Feng Yuxiang]] in 1925, autumn. The position of Gansu governor was taken by Feng Yuxiang. Only Muslim warlords were left after many of the non-Muslim warlords were expelled by Liu Yufen's Guominjun army of 15,000 soldiers as acting governor under Feng Yuxiang. A huge amount of taxes were squeezed for