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| Western Yugur | |
|---|---|
| Yellow Uyghur | |
| yoğır lar yoğır śoz | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Gansu |
| Ethnicity | 7,000 Yugur (2007)[1] |
Native speakers | ~2,000 (~1,000 fluent) (2019)[2] |
Turkic
| |
Early forms | |
| Old Uyghur alphabet (until 19th century) Latin alphabet (current) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ybe |
| Glottolog | west2402 |
| ELP | Yellow Uyghur |
 Western Yugur (lower part of the map, center) | |
Western Yugur (Yoğır lar[5] 'Yugur speech' or Yoğır śoz 'Yugur word'), also known as Neo-Uygur,[6] is the Turkic language spoken by the Yugur people. It is contrasted with Eastern Yugur, a Mongolic language spoken within the same community. Traditionally, both languages are indicated by the term Yellow Uygur, from the endonym of the Yugur.
There are approximately 2,000 speakers of Western Yugur.[2]
- ^ "Yugur, West". Ethnologue. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ^ a b Zhong, Yarjis Xueqing (2019). Rescuing a Language from Extinction: Documentation and Practical Steps for the Revitalisation of (Western) Yugur (PhD thesis). Australian National University. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ^ Brown, Keith; Ogilvie, Sarah (2009). Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. Elsevier. p. 1109. ISBN 978-0-08-087774-7.
- ^ Roos, Marti (1998). "Preaspiration in Western Yugur Monosyllables". In Johanson, Lars (ed.). The Mainz Meeting: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, August 3–6, 1994. Turcologica Series. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 28. ISBN 3-447-03864-0.
- ^ Roos (2000).
- ^ Clauson 1965, p. 57.