Lop, also known as Lopnor or Lopnur is a
Turkic dialect spoken in the
Lopnor region of
Xinjiang
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
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China. Its speakers are included as part of the "Uyghur" nationality in the census.
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 Standard may refer to:
Symbols
* Colours, standards and guidons, kinds of military signs
* Standard (emblem), a type of a large symbol or emblem used for identification
Norms, conventions or requirements
* Standard (metrology), an object th ...
Uyghur, it is considered by some linguists to be one of its
dialect
The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena:
One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a ...
s.
Phonology
Lopnor Uyghur has the following consonants:
Lopnor Uyghur has the following vowels:
References
;General
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Agglutinative languages
Karluk languages
Languages of China
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