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Uyghur is an official language of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; it is widely used in both social and official spheres, as well as in print, television, and radio. Other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang also use Uyghur as a common language. Uyghur belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic language family, which includes languages such as ...
- Uyghur Arabic Alphabet
The Uyghur Arabic alphabet (Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر ئەرەب يېزىقى,...
- Karluk Languages
The Karluk or Qarluq languages are a sub-branch of the...
- Uyghur Arabic Alphabet
The modern Uyghur language is classified under the Karluk branch of the Turkic language family. It is closely related to Äynu, Lop, Ili Turki and Chagatay (the East Karluk languages) and slightly less closely to Uzbek (which is West Karluk). The Uyghur language is an agglutinative language and has a subject-object-verb word order.
- 11.8 million
- 200,000 (2010)
- 223,100 (2009)
- 100,000–300,000
Uyghur (ئۇيغۇرچە, Uyghurche; formerly known as Eastern Turkish) is a Turkic language with 8 to 11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. There are several writing systems used to write Uyghur.
- 25 million (2016)
- Uyghur
- [ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Uyghur language, member of the Turkish language family spoken by Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwestern China. It is also spoken in portions of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It belongs to the southeastern (Uyghur-Chagatai) Turkic branch along with Uzbek.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Uyghur is an official language of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; it is widely used in both social and official spheres, as well as in print, television, and radio. Other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang also use Uyghur as a common language.
Uyghur is a Turkic language with 25 million speakers (in 2016) mainly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the north west of China, where it is an official language. In Xinjiang Uyghur is used in the media, and as a lingua franca among other peoples. There are also communities of Uyghur speakers in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Uyghur is a Turkic language with a long literary tradition spoken in Xinjiang, China by the Uyghurs. Today, the Uyghur Arabic alphabet is the official writing system used for Uyghur in Xinjiang, whereas other alphabets like the Uyghur Latin and Uyghur Cyrillic alphabets are still in use outside China, especially in Central Asia .