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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 Yining Xinjiang. The Salar number about 105000 people about 60000(2002) speak the Salar language; under 20000 monolinguals.The Salar arrived at their current location in the 14th century having migrated there from the west according to a Salar legend from Samarkand. Linguistic evidence points to a possible western Turkic Oghuz origin of the Salar.