Lop dialect
Lop, also known as Lopnor or Lopnur is a language 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.
References
↑ Uighur at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lopnor". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lop". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.