Lop
Nativenameليوپ تېلې / Lyop tëlë / Лёп теле
StatesChina
RegionXinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Speakers25,000
Dateno date
Ref[1]
FamilycolorAltaic
Fam 1Turkic
Fam 2Common Turkic
Fam 3Karluk
Fam 4Uyghur
Isoexceptiondialect
Glottolopn1238
GlottonameLopnor

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

Consonants:[3]
LabialAlveolarPalato-
alveolar		PalatalVelarUvularGlottal
Nasal[m][n][ŋ]
Plosiveunvoiced[p][t][k][q]
voiced[b][d][g]
Fricativeunvoiced[s][ʃ][ç][x]~[χ][h]
voiced[v][z][ʒ][ʝ][ɣ]~[ʁ]
Approximant[l][j]
Tap[ɾ]
Vowels:[4]
FrontBack
unroundedrounded
High[i][y][u]
Mid[e][ø][o]
Low[æ][a]

References

  1. ^
  2. ^ Abdurehim (2014).
  3. ^ Abdurehim (2014), p. 28.
  4. ^ Abdurehim (2014), p. 45.
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