Language Profile: Salar - 撒拉语

ISO 639-3: slr

Language name: Salar,  撒拉语

Ethnonym: Salar, 撒拉(族)

Locale: Qinghai province and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. (Map Source: Lewis 2009)

Population:

30,658 (1953 census)

34,644 (1964 census)

69,102 (1982 census)

87,697 (1990 census)

104,503 (2000 census)

 

Images

Salar Mosque, Tangsigang. © Arienne Dwyer

 

Bibliography

Dwyer, Arienne M. 2000. Direct and indirect experience in Salar. In Bo Utas and Lars Johanson, eds. Evidentials. Turkic, Iranian and neighbouring languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 45–59.

Dwyer, Arienne M. 2007. Salar: A Study in Inner Asian contact processes. Part I: Phonology. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Dwyer, Arienne. Forthcoming 2012. Salar: A Study in Inner Asian contact processes. Part II: Grammar. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Ebibulla, Minawer. 2005. Salayu yuanyin de tedian. Minzu yuwen 6: 49–52.

Ebibulla, Minawer. 2008. Salayu dongci chenshushi yanjiu. Minzu yuwen 6: 51–57.

Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue. SIL International. Online: http://www.ethnologue.com.
— Salar. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=slr.

Lin Lianyun. 1992. 汉撒拉、撒拉汉词汇 [Chinese-Salar, Salar-Chinese lexicon]. Chengdu: Sichuan renmin.

Ma Quanlin, Ma Wanxiang, Ma Zhicheng and Kevin Stuart 1993. Salar Language Materials. Sino-Platonic Papers 43: 1–72.

Ma Wei, Ma Jianzhong and Kevin Stuart. 1999. The Xunhua Salar Wedding. Asian Folklore Studies. 58.1:58–76.

Ma Wei, Ma Jianzhong, and Kevin Stuart. 2001. The Folklore of China’s Islamic Salar Nationality. Edwin Mellen Press.

Tenishev, Edgem R. 1976a. Stroj salarskogo jazyka. Moskva: Nauka.