Dabasun Nor (other)
Dabasun Nor, Noor, &c. (Mongolian for "Salt Lake") may refer to * Dabusun Lake, a salt lake in Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai, China * Dabasun Nor, Inner Mongolia, a former lake in northern China See also * Salt Lake (other) A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per lit ...

Mongolian Language
Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and both the most widely spoken and best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the ethnic Mongol residents of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.Estimate from Svantesson ''et al.'' (2005): 141. In Mongolia, Khalkha Mongolian is predominant, and is currently written in both Cyrillic and traditional Mongolian script. In Inner Mongolia, the language is dialectally more diverse and is written in the traditional Mongolian script. However, Mongols in both countries often use the Latin script for convenience on the Internet. In the discussion of grammar to follow, the variety of Mongolian treated is the standard written Khalkha formalized in the writing conventions and in grammar as taught in schools, but much of what is to be said is also valid for ve ...
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Dabusun Lake
Dabusun or alternately known as is a lake beside the town Qarhan, just north of Golmud in the Haixi Prefecture of Qinghai Province in northwestern China. Fed by the main course of the Golmud River, it is the largest present-day lake in the Qarhan Playa. Like the other lakes of the surrounding Qaidam Basin, it is extremely saline, with 307–338 grams of salt per liter of water Name ''Dabusun''. or ''Dabasun Nor'' is a romanization of its Mongolian name, which means simply "Salt Lake". In Mongolian, the name is sometimes designated "eastern", to distinguish it from West Dabusun Lake. It is sometimes misspelled ''Dabsun''. or ''Dabsan''. It was formerly known as the ''Dalai Dabasun'',. meaning "Sea" or "Ocean of Salt". ''Dabuxun'' is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese name (''Dábùxùn''), a transcription into characters of the Mongolian name. Geography Dabusun lies in the Dabusun subbasin in the central Qarhan Playa. It is one of the many saltwater lakes in ...
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Dabasun Nor, Inner Mongolia
Dabasun Nor was a former salt lake in the northwest corner of the Ordos Loop in what is now the Hanggin Banner of Ordos Prefecture, Inner Mongolia, China. Names ''Dabasun Nor'' is a romanization of the lake's Mongolian name, which means simply "Salt Lake". The same name also appears as Da-ba-sun Nor, Dabasun-Nor, Dabsoun Nor,. and Dabsoun-Noor.. The name was calqued into Chinese as (''Dàyán Hǎizi''), "the Great Salt Lake". It was also known to foreign geographers as Charamannai Nor, Kara-Mannaï-Omo, Karamanni Omo, Hara Manlay Nuur, and Dalay Dabasun, the last meaning "Sea" or "Ocean of Salt", although these names were unknown to locals by the 20th century. Geography In the 1840s, the lake was reckoned as about 20 lis (about ) in circumference. As late as the mid-1950s, Dabasun Nor was reckoned as usually long and wide, with an expansive salt marsh to its east. After a rain, its depth could reach as much as . Its former bed lies about above sea level.. The area ...
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