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Western Yugur
Native to: China
Region: Gansu
Ethnicity: 7,000 Yugur (2007)
Native speakers: 4,600 (2007)
Language family: Turkic

is the Turkic language spoken by the Yugur people. It is contrasted with Eastern Yugur, the 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 4,600 Turkic-speaking Yugurs.

Besides similarities with Uyghuric languages, Western Yugur also shares a number of features, mainly archaisms, with several of the Northeastern Turkic languages, but it is not closer to any one of them in particular. Neither Western nor Eastern Yugur is mutually intelligible with Uyghur.

Western Yugur also contains archaisms which are attested in neither modern Uyghuric nor Siberian, such as its anticipating counting system coinciding with Old Uyghur, and its copula dro, which originated from Old Uyghur but substitutes the Uyghur copulative personal suffixes.

Speakers of Western Yugur reside primarily in the western part of Gansu province's Sunan Yugur Autonomous County.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Yugur_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunan_Yugur_Autonomous_County
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugur

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