Uyghur | |
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Uighur | |
ئۇيغۇرچە / ئۇيغۇر تىلى | |
![]() Uyghur written in Perso-Arabic script | |
Pronunciation | [ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili] |
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Ethnicity | Uyghur |
Native speakers | 25 million (2016)[1] |
Turkic
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Early forms | Karakhanid
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Arabic (official, Uyghur alphabet) Latin Cyrillic | |
Official status | |
Official language in | ![]() |
Regulated by | Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ug Uighur, Uyghur |
ISO 639-2 | uig Uighur, Uyghur |
ISO 639-3 | uig Uighur, Uyghur |
Glottolog | uigh1240 Uighur |
![]() Geographical extent of Uyghur in China | |
Uyghur (ئۇيغۇرچە, Uyghurche;[3][4] 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. While Uyghurs usually use the Uyghur alphabet, an alphabet based on the Arabic alphabet, there are also two Latin and one Cyrillic alphabet that can be used to write Uyghur.
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