Lop_dialect

Lop dialect

Lop dialect

Turkic dialect of Xinjiang, China

Lop, also known as Lopnor or Lopnur is a Turkic dialect spoken in the Lopnor region of Xinjiang, China. Lop speakers are officially classified as ethnic Uyghurs by the Chinese government.

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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.[2]

Phonology

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References

  1. [1]
    Uighur at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).
  2. [2]
    Abdurehim (2014).
  3. [3]
    Abdurehim (2014), p. 28.
  4. [4]
    Abdurehim (2014), p. 45.
General
  • Abdurehim, Esmael (2014). The Lopnor Dialect of Uyghur: A Descriptive Analysis (PDF) (Doctoral thesis). Publications of the Institute for Asian and African Studies 17. Helsinki: Unigrafia. hdl:10138/136392. ISBN 978-951-51-0384-0.


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