Salar language
| Salar | |
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| Salırça سالارچا |
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| Native to | China |
| Region | Qinghai, Gansu |
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Native speakers
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70,000 (2002) |
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Turkic
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| Arabic, Chinese, Pinyin-based Latin, Turkish-based Latin | |
| Official status | |
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Official language in
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | sala1264 |
Salar is a Turkic language spoken by the Salar people, who mainly live in the provinces of Qinghai and Gansu in China; some also live in Yining, Xinjiang. The Salar number about 105,000 people, about 60,000 (2002) speak the Salar language; under 20,000 monolinguals.
The Salar arrived at their current location in the 14th century, having migrated there from the west, according to a Salar legend from Samarkand. Indeed, linguistic evidence points to a possible western Turkic, Oghuz origin of the Salar. Contemporary Salar is heavily influenced by contact with Amdo Tibetan and Chinese.
The Salar language is the official language in all Salar autonomous areas. Such autonomous areas are the Xunhua Salar Autonomous County and the Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County.
Salar phonology has been influenced by Tibetan and Chinese. In addition, /k, q/ and /g, ɢ/ have become separate phonemes due to loanwords, as it has in other Turkic languages.
Salar vowels are as in Turkish, with the back vowels a, ɯ, o, u and the corresponding front vowels e, i, ø, y.
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