Salar

Also known as Salar language

language

Key facts

Pronunciation: [ sa̠lá̠ɻt͡ɕʰa̠ ] , [ sa̠lɯ̞́˞t͡ɕʰa̠ ]
Native to: China
Region: Qinghai , Gansu , Xinjiang
Ethnicity: Salar
Native speakers: 70,000 (2002)
Language family: Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz Salar
Dialects: Ili Salar Gaizi (Jiezi) Mengda
Writing system: Pinyin -based Latin and Chinese characters
Official language in: China Xunhua Salar Autonomous County Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County
Iso 639 3: slr
Glottolog: sala1264
Elp: Salar

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233 entries in lexical database. Click here for all forms in the database. Dwyer, Arienne. 1998. “The Turkic strata of Salar: an Oghuz in Chagatay clothes?” Turkic Languages 2: 49-83. Dwyer, Arienne. 2000. “Consonantalization and Obfuscation.” In Goksel, Aslı & Cecilia Kerslake, eds. 2000. Studies on Turkish and Turkic Linguistics. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Turkish Linguistics . Lincoln College, Oxford, 12-14 August 1998 (Turcologica 46). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 423–432.

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exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SLR
native label: 撒拉语
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 70000
described at URL: lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=868

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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 Ili, Xinjiang. It is a primary branch and an eastern outlier of the Oghuz branch of Turkic, the other Oghuz languages being spoken mostly in West and Central Asia. The Salar number about 105,000 people, about 70,000 (2002) speak the Salar language; under 20,000 are monolinguals.

According to Salar tradition and Chinese chronicles, the Salars are the descendants of the Salur tribe, belonging to the Oghuz Turk tribe of the Western Turkic Khaganate. During the Tang dynasty, the Salur tribe dwelt within China's borders and since then has lived within the Qinghai-Gansu border region. Contemporary Salar has some influence from Mandarin Chinese and Amdo Tibetan.