public_comment: ""The Lopnor dialect is considered one of the three regional varieties of Uyghur in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It is spoken by approximately less than 0.5% of the Uyghur population. Nevertheless, it occupies a special position not only among the regional varieties of Uyghur, but also in comparative research on Turkic languages. It also provides a crucial data for language contact in this area. The Lopnor dialect displays a set of unique phonological, morphological and syntactic features alien to other varieties of Uyghur. Its lexicon contains exceptional items relating to fishing and some rare Old Turkic words and copies (loan words) from Mongolian. Thus, some scholar consider it as an independent language rather than a variety of Uyghur." (Abdurehim 2014: 26)",
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semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
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code_id:10481,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "<24,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "0",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "24,000",
date_of_info: "1982",
public_comment: ""I assume that the number of the Lopnor dialect speakers in 1982 must have been less than 24,000 as this is the number of Uyghur people in the entire Lopnor region. Therefore, this number may include some speakers of the central dialect and migrant Uyghur people from other parts of Xinjiang." (p.19)",
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simplified_level: "high",
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updated_at: "2018-03-25 01:00:48",
speaker_attitude: ""only a limited number of people in the community believe that the Lopnor dialect is a practical and more expressive way of speaking."",