Salar language
Spoken language
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... Wikipedia
Language families: Turkic languages, Altaic languages, and Oghuz languages
Dialects: Ili Salar; Gaizi (Jiezi); Mengda
Native speakers: 70,000 (2002)
Native to: China
Official language in: China: Xunhua Salar Autonomous County; Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County
Writing system: Pinyin-based Latin and Chinese characters
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