阿昌族主要聚居在云南省德宏傣族景颇族自治州的陇川、梁河等地,其余分布在盈江、潞西、瑞丽及保山市的龙陵和腾冲等地。根据2000年第五次全国人口普查统计,阿昌族人口为33938人,为国家重点扶持的人口较少民族之一。阿昌族使用阿昌语,属汉藏语系藏缅语族缅语支,无文字,通用汉文和傣文。 Achang mainly live in Longchuan, Lianghe and other places in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, while the rest are distributed in places like Yingjiang, Luxi, Ruili and Baoshan and Longling and Tengchong. According to the statistics of the fifth national census in 2000, the population of Achang people is 33,938, which is one of the less populous ethnic groups supported by the state. The Achang people use the Achang language, which belongs to the Burmese ethnic Burmese tribe of the Sino-Tibetan language family with no words, common Chinese and Dai languages.