Salar
Salïrča
Salar is a Turkic language spoken in China, by about 70 thousand people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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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.
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Written down
Heme kishler hür der, haysiyet ma haklarde adil der, mantik ma vicdan var, kardeshlikden davraneshge.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Salar
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | ama | |
| father | aba | |
| liver | baqe | |
| water | su | |
| horse | ate | |
| tea | saluq |
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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