Lop dialect

{{Short description|Dialect of the Uyghur language}} {{Infobox language |name=Lop |nativename={{lang|ug|ليوپ تېلې}} / {{lang|ug|Lyop tëlë}} / {{lang|ug|Лёп теле}} |states=China |region=Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region |speakers=25,000 |date=no date |ref=<ref name="e12">{{Ethnologue12|uig|Uighur}}</ref> |familycolor=Altaic |fam1=Turkic |fam2=Common Turkic |fam3=Karluk |fam4=Uyghur |isoexception=dialect |glotto=lopn1238 |glottoname=Lopnor }}

'''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.

==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.{{sfnp|Abdurehim|2014}}

== Phonology ==

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==References== {{reflist}}

;General {{refbegin}} * {{Cite thesis |last=Abdurehim |first=Esmael |title=The Lopnor Dialect of Uyghur: A Descriptive Analysis |date=2014 |degree=Doctoral |publisher=Unigrafia |url=https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/136392/lopnordi.pdf?sequence=1 |isbn=978-951-51-0384-0 |series=Publications of the Institute for Asian and African Studies 17 |location=Helsinki |hdl=10138/136392 |hdl-access=free}} {{refend}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lop Language}} Category:Agglutinative languages Category:Endangered languages of China Category:Endangered Turkic languages Category:Uyghur language