Lop dialect
Lop, also known as Lopnor or Lopnur is a dialect spoken in Xinjiang, China. Its speakers are included as part of the "Uyghur" nationality in the census.
| Lop | |
|---|---|
| Ľor télé / Льор теълеъ | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 25,000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | lopn1238 Lopnor |
| ELP | Lopnor Uighur[2] |
Classification
Lop belongs to the Karluk branch of Turkic languages, along with Uyghur and Uzbek. Its status as a distinct language from Uyghur is disputed. Although it has some features that differentiate it from standard Uyghur, it is considered by some linguists to be one of its dialects.
References
- Uighur at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).
- Endangered Languages Project data for Lopnor Uighur.
General
- Abdurehim, Esmael (2014), The Lopnor dialect of Uyghur - A descriptive analysis (PDF), Publications of the Institute for Asian and African Studies 17, Helsinki: Unigrafia, ISBN 978-951-51-0384-0
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