China?s ethnic minorities are the cause of only 8.five percent of the population, however number over 113 million. And while most are scattered on the outer boundaries with the nation, living in the high plateaus of Tibet or even in the mountains of South China, their existence as a part with the political fabric in the People?s Republic of China could be see on one from the core documents from the nation, its currency. China?s currency could be the renminbi or "people?s money," and while the current generation of banknotes did away with images of varied ethnic minorities in favor of Chairman Mao, the notes still retain some ethnic flavor, in the form of written language.

The words "People?s Bank of China" appears in many languages including in simplified Chinese on the face from the note, along with the denomination in Arabic numerals and Chinese financial characters (not the standard simplified Chinese for that numbers 1-10). There is also a representation with the denomination in Chinese braille for the bottom right face of the note. On the reverse, "People?s Bank of China" appears in pinyin (Zhonguo Renmin Yinhang) and, since they were first introduced in 1955, four of China?s minority languages, Mongol, Tibetan, Uighur and Zhuang.

A quick breakdown of these languages:

Traditional Mongolian script was adapted from Uighur at the beginning with the 13th century and may be the co-official language inside autonomous region of Inner Mongolia. While the script remains available today in Inner Mongolia, the united states of Mongolia adopted the Cyrillic script with the Russian alphabet (plus two characters) in the 1940s.

Tibetan is derived from the ancient Indian Brahmi script. Although spoken Tibetan may differ throughout the region, the written language is consistent throughout.

Uighur is a Turkic language spoken primarily in Xinjiang community . is also spoken in by small sets of ethnic Uighurs in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan Afghanistan and Western Mongolia. In China, an Arabic-derived alphabet can be used to write Uighur, though there are other alphabets available outside of Xinjiang.

The Zhuang language is produced by the Tai band of languages and is utilized by the Zhuang those who mostly inhabit Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in South China. Zhuang use being written with logographs, very similar towards the Vietnamese language. The language was Romanized in 1957 through the Chinese government who standardized the text (with some special letter remaining). The language was fully converted to a Latin alphabet in 1982.