Lop dialect
 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (June 2011) |
| Lop | |
|---|---|
| Ľor télé / Льор теълеъ | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Lop County |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 25,000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | lopn1238 Lopnorlopp1238 Lop – duplicate entry |
| ELP | Lopnor Uighur |
Lop, also known as Lopnor or Lopnur is a language[citation needed] spoken in Lop County in Xinjiang, China.
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.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Uighur at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).
General
- Abdurehim, Esmael (2014), The Lopnor dialect of Uyghur - A descriptive analysis,Publications of the Institute for Asian and African Studies 17, Helsinki: Unigrafia, ISBN 978-951-51-0384-0