Lop dialect

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.

Lop
Ľor télé / Льор теълеъ
Native toChina
RegionXinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Native speakers
(undated figure of 25,000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologlopn1238  Lopnor
ELPLopnor 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
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
Vowels:[4]
Front Back
unrounded rounded
High i y u
Mid e ø o
Low æ a

References
  1. Uighur at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).
  2. Abdurehim (2014).
  3. Abdurehim (2014), p. 28.
  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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