Lop, also known as Lopnor or Lopnur is a language spoken in Lop County

Lop County

The Lop County is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Khotan Prefecture. It contains an area of 14,264 km2. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 240,000....

 in Xinjiang

Xinjiang

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, China

China

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Classification

Lop belongs to the Karluk branch of Turkic languages, along with Uyghur

Uyghur language

Uyghur , formerly known as Eastern Turk, is a Turkic language with 8 to 11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur-speakers are located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and various other...

 and Uzbek

Uzbek language

Uzbek is a Turkic language and the official language of Uzbekistan. It has about 25.5 million native speakers, and it is spoken by the Uzbeks in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in Central Asia...

. Its status as a distinct language from Uyghur is disputed. Although it has some features that differentiate it from standard

Standard language

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 Uyghur, it is considered by some linguists to be one of its dialect

Dialect

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