Salar

Facts

  • Language: Salar
  • Alternate names: Sala
  • Language code: slr
  • Language family: Turkic, Common Turkic, Oghuz
  • Dialects: Ili Salar.
  • Number of speakers: 70000
  • Vulnerability: Threatened [Read more...]
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    Introduction

    Salar is a language of China. It is spoken in Qinghai Province, Xunhua Salar and Hualong Hui autonomous counties; Gansu Province, Jishishan autonomous county; Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Yilli. Kazakh autonomous prefecture.

    Dialects

    Ili, Jiezi, Mengda. Salar is spoken by descendants of an Oghuz-Turkic-speaking subtribe. Has an Oghuz Turkic base, and took on a medieval Chaghatay Turkic stratum through Central Asian contacts and finally acquired a stratum of features from local languages (1989 R. Hahn). Jiezi often seen as standard dialect.

    The Salar Verb

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