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 family	Turkic Common Turkic Karluk Uyghur Lop
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

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