Salar language

Spoken in

• Altaic languages ​​( disputed) Turkic languages Uighur languages Salarisch

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Does ( other Altaic languages)

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The salarische language (self- designation: Salar dili ) is a Turkic language that is today called a Uighur languages, but historically derives from a language of the Oghuz group.

According to their oral tradition, the ancestors of the Salar in the period between the years 1393 to 1368 and immigrated from the region of Samarkand in their residences on the eastern edge of the Islamic world turksprachlichen sein.Spuren their original oghusisch colored language can still be seen.

• See also: Comparative analysis of the Turkic languages

Speaker and distribution area

Salarisch 1982 was still the first language of approximately 55,000 people.

The main settlement area of ​​the Salar is located in the People's Republic of China: Autonomous County Xunhua Salar Autonomous County and Hualong Hui in Qinghai Province; Furthermore, the Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture Ili in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The language supports are often multilingual: in addition to their own language is mainly Uighur and also often spoken Chinese.

Alphabets

Salarisch was written in Arabic letters since the 10th century.

1969/70 a Latin alphabet was introduced, which is closely modeled on that of the Uyghur and led back to the unitary Turkish alphabet.