The Status Quo and Value of Western Yugur Language Research

Yugur is one of the 56 ethnic groups in China, and is a unique minority in Gansu Province. In the process of language development and evolution, the Yugur language is unique: a nation has two native languages, and the two languages belong to the Altaic Turkic language group and the Mongolian language group, the characters have been lost. Especially in the western Yugur language, the pronunciation of ancient Turkic languages is preserved, which is of great value to the study of the development and evolution of languages. Language is an important carrier of culture, which carries the development of Chinese national culture. Protecting and studying the development and language conditions of various ethnic languages is of great significance to the inheritance of national culture. By combing the current situation of the research on western Yugur language home and abroad, this paper mainly analyzes the research focus and research content, so as to highlight the specific theoretical value of the current research.