Lop, also known as Lopnor or Lopnur is a Turkic dialect spoken in the

Lopnor Lop Nur or Lop Nor (from a Mongolian language, Mongolian name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin) is a former salt lakes in China, salt lake, now largely dried up, located in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin, bet ...

region of

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

, China. Its speakers are included as part of the "Uyghur" nationality in the census.

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 Standard may refer to: Symbols * Colours, standards and guidons, kinds of military signs * Standard (emblem), a type of a large symbol or emblem used for identification Norms, conventions or requirements * Standard (metrology), an object ...

Uyghur, it is considered by some linguists to be one of its

dialect The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena: One usage refers to a variety of a language that ...

Phonology

Lopnor Uyghur has the following consonants: Lopnor Uyghur has the following vowels:

References

;General * Agglutinative languages Karluk languages Languages of China {{Turkic-lang-stub