Western Yugur language
| Western Yugur | |
|---|---|
| Yellow Uyghur | |
| yoğır lar yoğır śoz | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Gansu |
| Ethnicity | 7,000 Yugur (2007) |
Native speakers | ~2,000 (~1,000 fluent) (2019) |
Turkic
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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 is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Western Yugur (Yoğır lar 'Yugur speech' or Yoğır śoz 'Yugur word'), also known as Neo-Uygur, 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.