Lop dialect
| 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 |
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.
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 | Alveolar | Palato- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Plosive | Unvoiced | p | t | k | q | |||
| Voiced | b | d | g | |||||
| Fricative | Unvoiced | s | ʃ | ç | x~χ | h | ||
| Voiced | v | z | ʒ | ʝ | ɣ~ʁ | |||
| Approximant | l | j | ||||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||||
Lopnor Uyghur has the following vowels:[4]
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Unrounded | Rounded | ||
| High | i | y | u |
| Mid | e | ø | 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.