It has more than 40,000 speakers in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, China and consists of two sub-dialects, Alasha proper and Eǰene.
[4] Alasha was initially classified as an Oirat language, but has lost many of these features in a process known as de-Oiratization.
[5] Alasha shows characteristic features of Oirat, such as preservation of /k/ in some contexts and imperative suffixes.
However, it also has several features more typical of Khalkha or some Inner Mongolian dialects, such /j/ in place of Oirat /z/ and some forms of personal pronouns.
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