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 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 | 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.
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