Salar language

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The Salar language is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Salar people in northwestern China, notable for its Oghuz roots and heavy influence from Chinese and Tibetan.

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Label Occurrences
Salar language canonical 7

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Oghuz language
Turkic language
agglutinative language
closelyRelatedTo Azerbaijani language
Turkish language
Turkmen language
ethnologueCode slr
glottologCode sala1264
hasDialect Ili Salar dialect
Qinghai-Gansu Salar dialect
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable
hasFeature agglutinative morphology
case marking
lack of grammatical gender
postpositions
vowel harmony (partially preserved)
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic language
linked to: Arabic

Chinese language
Persian language
Tibetan language
hasMorphologicalInfluenceFrom Tibetan language
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Chinese language
hasReligionAssociated Islam
hasWordOrder SOV
hasWritingSystem Arabic script
Latin script (unofficial, romanization)
historicallyDerivedFrom Oghuz Turkic
influencedBy Arabic language
linked to: Arabic

Chinese language
Mandarin Chinese
Persian language
Tibetan language
linked to: Tibetan
iso639-3Code slr
languageFamily Turkic languages
regionOfOrigin Central Asia
spokenBy Salar people
spokenIn China
Gansu Province
Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County
Qinghai Province
linked to: Qinghai

Xunhua Salar Autonomous County
subfamily Oghuz branch of Turkic
usedAlongside Mandarin Chinese
usedBy Muslim communities
usedInDomain home and community communication
usedInEducation limited local education

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Oghuz Turkic language includesLanguage Salar language
Salar ethnonymLanguage Salar language
Salar language Salar language
Salır associatedLanguage Salar language
Salar people language Salar language