Alasha dialect

Alasha
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologalas1256  Alasha Oirad

Alasha ([ɑɮʃɑ], in some Mongolian varieties [ɑɮɑ̆ɡʃɑ];[1] Mongolian script: ᠠᠯᠠᠱᠠ, Mongolian Cyrillic: Алшаа Alaša, Chinese: 阿拉善; pinyin: Ālāshàn), or Alaša-Eǰen-e, is a Mongolic variety with features of both Oirat and Mongolian[2][3] that historically used to belong to Oirat but has come under the influence of Mongolian proper. It has more than 40,000 speakers in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, China and consists of two sub-dialects, Alasha proper and Eǰene.[4]

  1. ^ Here and in the following, the phoneme analysis proposed in Svantesson et al. 2005 is adapted for Alasha
  2. ^ Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 190-191 classify it as Mongolian according to morphological criteria, Svantesson et al. 2005: 148 classifies it as Oirat because of its vowel system.
  3. ^ Rákos, Attilla (2012). "Introduction to Oirad Dialectology". Oirad and Kalmyk Linguistic Essays (PDF). Hungary: Eötvös Loránd University.
  4. ^ Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 265-266