Native to China | ||
Region Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Lop County Native speakers (undated figure of 25,000) Language family Turkic
Common Turkic
Karluk
Uyghur
Lop Glottolog lopn1238 (Lopnor)
lopp1238 (Lop – duplicate entry) | ||
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
Lop dialect Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA