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Salar
The Salar people (Chinese: ÈöÀ×åorÈöÀ¶û¡¢ÈöÀ, Pinyin: S¨¡l¨¡z¨²) are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They numbered 140,000 people in the last census and live mostly in Qinghai (in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County and Hualong Autonomous County of the Hui Nationality ), in Gansu (in Jishishan Autonomous County of the Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Nationalities ) and in Xinjiang (in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture ).They are a patriarchal agricultural society and Muslims.
History
The Salars of China have Claim themself as "Salır".Salar is also as Salur in Turkish and azerbaijani,Salar is also as Salyr in Turkmen .The Salars' ancestors were from the Karaman clan(or Karaman tribe) branch of ancient the Salar(Salur,Salyr )tribal of Oghuz Turks(Turkmens). According to Salar tradition, during the 13th and 14th centuries their ancestors, left Mary in present-day Turkmenistan and eventually settled in their present location in Qinghai province.Contemporary Salar is heavily influenced by contact with Tibetan and Chinese.
Salar language
Salar is a Turkic language, belonging to the southern branch of the Altaic language family (therefore non Indo-European). The Salar language is part of the Oghuz, or Western Turkic, group of Turkic languages, together with Anatolian Turkish (spoken in Turkey) , Turkmen (spoken in Turkmenistan) and Azeri(spoken in Azerbaijan). Salar is a Turkic language spoken by the Salar people, who mainly live in the provinces of Qinghai and Gansu in China; some also live in Ghulja, Xinjiang. The Salar number about 140,000 people.
Salar Language wikki:
incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/slr/Salar_Millet
incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/slr/Sal%C4%B1r%C3%A7a
Salar National Alphabet
A a B b C c Ç ç D d E e F f G g Ğ ğ H h İ i I ı K k L l M m N n Ñ ñ O o Ö ö P p Q q R r S s Ş ş T t U u Ü ¨¹ V v X x Y y Z z
Salar National Alphabet
The IPA of the Salar National letters
Salar orhun alphabet
Salar Tamga
Salar(Salur/Salır/Salyr) tribe
Salur is also as Salgur,Salır(Salyr),Salar,Salor,Salirli,Salurlu,Salgurlu.Salur,Salar, Salyr or Salgur were an ancient Oghuz Turkic people and a sub-branch of the Üçok tribal federation. The medieval Karamanoğlu beylik in Anatolia belonged to the Karaman branch of the Salur. The patriarchs of the modern Turkmen tribe of Salyr in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran, as well as the Salar nationality in China claim descent from the Salur.After Seljuks' era closed in middle east, they established a state named as Salgulular State in Iraq centered area in 12th century and they support other T¨¹rkmens for reconstruction of Anatolia. In Dede Korkut's epic tales one of the heroes "Salur Kazan" is also a salurian people. Some of the Salurs still live in Anatolia, middle east and centeral asia.
Xunhua Salar Autonomous County
Xunhua Salar Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: Ñ»¯ÈöÀ×å×ÔÖÎÏØ; pinyin: X¨²nhu¨¤ S¨£l¨¢z¨² Z¨¬zh¨¬xi¨¤n) lies in the southeast of Haidong Prefecture of the Chinese province of Qinghai, for instance 35.5¡ã northern latitude, 102,3¡ã eastern longitude. The county has an area of around 2,100 km² and approximately 110,000 inhabitants (2002). In the east it borders on the province of Gansu, in the south and the west to the Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, its capital is the town of Jishi.
Salar forum:
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