Lop dialect
Lop, also known as Lopnor or Lopnur is a dialect spoken in the Lopnor region of 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 |
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
Lopnor Uyghur has the following consonants:[3]
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | Laryngeal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labio-dental | Alveolar | Palato- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
| Plosive | p b | t d | k g | q | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||||
| Fricative | v | s z | ʃ ʒ | ç ʝ | x~χ ɣ~ʁ | h | |||
| Approximant | j | ||||||||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||||
Lopnor Uyghur has the following vowels:[4]
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rounded | Unrounded | Rounded | Unrounded | |
| High | y | i | u | |
| Mid | ø | e | o | |
| Low | æ | a | ||
References
- Uighur at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).
- Abdurehim (2014).
- Abdurehim (2014), p. 28.
- 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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