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    Uyghur is a Turkic language spoken primarily by Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang region, with 8-11 million speakers. It belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic language family and is written using the Uyghur Perso-Arabic alphabet, though other alphabets have also been used. Uyghur displays features common to Turkic languages like vowel harmony and agglutination, and has historically been influenced by Arabic, Persian, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. It is an official language of Xinjiang and widely used in social and official spheres there.

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    Uyghur is a Turkic language spoken primarily by Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang region, with 8-11 million speakers. It belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic language family and is written using the Uyghur Perso-Arabic alphabet, though other alphabets have also been used. Uyghur displays features common to Turkic languages like vowel harmony and agglutination, and has historically been influenced by Arabic, Persian, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. It is an official language of Xinjiang and widely used in social and official spheres there.

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    Uyghur is a Turkic language spoken primarily by Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang region, with 8-11 million speakers. It belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic language family and is written using the Uyghur Perso-Arabic alphabet, though other alphabets have also been used. Uyghur displays features common to Turkic languages like vowel harmony and agglutination, and has historically been influenced by Arabic, Persian, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese. It is an official language of Xinjiang and widely used in social and official spheres there.

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    Uyghur language

    The Uyghur or Uighur language (/ˈwiːɡʊər, -ɡər/;[3] ‫ئۇيغۇر تىلى‬, Уйғур тили, Uyghur tili, Uyƣur tili,
    IPA: [ujɣur tili] or ‫ئۇيغۇرچە‬, Уйғурчә, Uyghurche, Uyƣurqə, IPA: [ujɣurˈtʃɛ], CTA: Uyğurçä; formerly
    known as Eastern Turki), is a Turkic language written in a Uyghur Perso-Arabic script with 8-11
    million speakers,[1] spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous
    Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur speakers are located in
    Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, and various other countries have Uyghur-speaking
    expatriate communities. Uyghur is an official language of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous
    Region; is widely used in both social and official spheres, as well as in print, television, and radio;
    and is used as a common language by other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.[4]
    Uyghur

    Uighur

    ‫ئۇيغۇر تىلى‬, Уйғур тили, Uyghur tili,


    Uyƣur tili, Uyğur tili

    "Uyghur" written in Perso-Arabic script

    Pronunciation [ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]

    Native to China

    Ethnicity Uyghurs

    Native speakers 8-11 million[1] (2021)

    Language family Turkic


    Common Turkic
    Karluk
    Uyghur

    Early forms Karakhanid


    Chagatai
    Eastern Turki

    Dialects Central Uyghur


    Khotan
    Lopnor

    Writing system Uyghur alphabets (Uyghur Perso-Arabic alphabet


    (official), Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet, Uyghur Latin
    alphabet, Uyghur New Script)

    Official status

    Official language in China[2]


    Xinjiang

    Regulated by Working Committee of Ethnic Language and


    Writing of Xinjiang

    Language codes

    ISO 639-1 ug (https://www.loc.gov/standards/i


    so639-2/php/langcodes_name.php?iso_6
    39_1=ug) Uighur, Uyghur

    ISO 639-2 uig (https://www.loc.gov/standards/


    iso639-2/php/langcodes_name.php?code
    _ID=471) Uighur, Uyghur

    ISO 639-3 uig Uighur, Uyghur

    Glottolog uigh1240 (http://glottolog.org/reso


    urce/languoid/id/uigh1240)   Uighur

    Geographical extent of Uyghur Language in China (Xinjiang) and outskirts of Xinjiang.

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    Say "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" in Uyghur: ‫ ئوچۇق ئېنسىكلوپېدىيە‬، ‫ۋىكىپېدىيە‬

    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. More distinctly, Uyghur processes include vowel reduction and
    umlauting, especially in northern dialects. In addition to other Turkic languages, Uyghur has
    historically been strongly influenced by Arabic and Persian, and more recently by Russian and
    Mandarin Chinese.

    The modified Arabic-derived writing system is the most common and the only standard in
    China,[5] although other writing systems are used for auxiliary and historical purposes. Unlike
    most Arabic-derived scripts, the Uyghur Arabic alphabet has mandatory marking of all vowels
    due to modifications to the original Perso-Arabic script made in the 20th century. Two Latin and
    one Cyrillic alphabet are also used, though to a much lesser extent. The two Latin-based and the
    Arabic-based Uyghur alphabets have 32 characters each; the Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet also uses
    two iotified vowel letters (Ю and Я).

    History

    Classification

    Status

    Phonology

    Orthography

    Grammar

    Lexicon

    See also

    References

    Further reading

    External links
    Retrieved from
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
    title=Uyghur_language&oldid=1127884418"

    Last edited 5 days ago by Ogress

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