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Uyghur belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic language family, which includes languages such as Uzbek. Like many other Turkic languages, Uyghur displays vowel harmony and agglutination, lacks noun classes or grammatical gender, and is a left-branching language with subject–object–verb word order.
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Mar 17, 2024 · The Uyghur literary language was originally written in Arabic script, but a modified Latin alphabet was officially adopted in 1930, and in 1947 a modified Cyrillic alphabet was adopted within the Soviet Union. In China the Arabic script continues to be widely used for writing Uyghur, although a modified Latin alphabet was introduced in 1969.
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Uyghur or Uighur is a Turkic language written in a Uyghur Perso-Arabic script with 8–13 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Apart from Xinjiang, significant communities of Uyghur speakers are also located in Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, and various other countries have Uyghur-speaking ...
The name of this language is variously spelt Uigur, Uiguir, Uighuir, Uygur, Uighur, Uygur, Uyghur in English, and 维吾尔语 (Wéiwú'ěryǔ) in Mandarin Chinese. Native names of the language are written ئۇيغۇرچە / Уйғурчә / Uyghurche, or ئۇيغۇر تىلى / Уйғур тили / Uyghur tili. Uyghur is the preferred ...
Western Yugur (Western Yugur: yoɣïr lar [4] (Yugur speech) or yoɣïr śoz (Yugur word)) also known as Neo-Uygur [5] is the Turkic language spoken by the Yugur people. It is contrasted with Eastern Yugur, a Mongolic language spoken within the same community. Traditionally, both languages are indicated by the term "Yellow Uygur", from the ...
