中文摘要：

少数民族文献在现代文献中占有占有重要的地位，苗族贾理是苗族文化的载体，不仅对苗族历史和社会有记述，也是今天识别相邻民族的口头文献。“卡”是苗语对古代文献“木佬”人的称呼。本文采用语言学，文献学，历史学以及现代人们的传说及口述文献，来考证卡人（木佬）族属古代是从僚族演化而来，也与仡佬族有亲近的文化亲缘关系。

英文摘要：

The literature of the ethnic minority people occupies an important position in modern literature. The Jia Li of Miao is the carrier of the Miao culture.It has not only accounted for the Miao history and society, but is also oral literature to identify the neighboring ethnic groups today.In the ancient literature,“Ka”is ap-plied by the Miao to call “Mu Lao”.This paper,based on the study of linguistics,philology,history and mod-ern people’s legends and oral literature,verifies that the origin of the Ka people is evolved from the Liao,and they also have certain close cultural relationship with the Gelao clan.