Salar
A language of China
| Population | 60,000 (2002), decreasing. Under 20,000 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 104,503 (2000 census). |
| Region | Qinghai Province, Xunhua Salar Autonomous, Hualong Hui autonomous counties; Gansu Province, Jishishan Autonomous County; Xinjiang, Yining. |
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| Alternate names | Sala |
| Dialects | Jiezi, Mengda. Salar is spoken by descendants of an Oghuz-Turkic-speaking subtribe. Has an Oghuz Turkic base, and took on a medieval Chaghatay Turkic stratum through Central Asian contacts and finally acquired a stratum of features from local languages (1989 R. Hahn). Jiezi often seen as standard dialect. |
| Classification | Altaic, Turkic, Southern |
| Language use | Some speakers of other languages in the area use Salar, especially men. All domains. All ages. Neutral attitude. Also use Chinese [cmn], Uyghur [uig], or Tibetan [bod]. |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L2: 52%. Dictionary. Grammar. |
| Comments | Classified as Salar nationality. SOV. Agriculturalists; animal husbandry; commerce. Muslim (Sufi, Sunni, Ikhwan). |
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