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Classification
Uyghur is one of a Eastern Turkic languages, which is grouped by some linguists as a branch of Altaic.

Geographic distribution
Uyghur is spoken by Eight.Five million (2004) within China, mostly in the far western Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Uyghur is likewise spoken by 300,000 inside Kazakhstan, and there are Uyghur-speaking communities inside Afghanistan, Australia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA, and Uzbekistan.

Official status
A Uyghurs come one of a 56 official nationalities in China, and Uyghur is an official language of Xinjiang.

Dialects
A idiom of Uyghur identified per Ethnologue are Central Uyghur, Hotan (Hetian), and Lop (Luobu). There are ii independent languages within Xinjiang Uighur autonmous region: Uyghur & Chinese. Chinese is non utilized widely inside southern Xinjiang. Just about Eighty newspapers & magazines come available inside Uighur; 5 TV trend lines & x publishers help when a Uighur media. A lot of the principles & news provided has to become permitted by governmental agents.

Sounds
Syllable structure may be CV, CVC, or even CVCC. Uyghur is non the tonal language.

Grammar
Uyghur has Subject Object Verb word order, postpositions, genitives, adjectives, numerals, relatives before noun heads, & initial wonder words. There are prefixes and suffixes. Word the correct sequence distinguishes cases & indirect objects, topic & comment. There are Octonary noun events shown by postfix. Verb postfix mark subject human, total, 2d individual marks plural form & Trio levels of respect. Types of verbs include passive, reflexive, reciprocal and causative.

Vocabulary
Uyghur vocabulary is essentially from either either Turkic futures, however such as Uzbek has taken in the big quantity of loan words from Persian. Numerous internationalisms entered a Uyghur language via Russian, & there are a select few other recent loans from either Chinese.

Writing system
A language traditionally utilized a Arabic script since the 10th century. the Chinese government introduced a Roman script inside 1969, however a Persian-Arabic script was reintroduced in 1983, however by owning more diacritical mark to distinguish everthing vowels of Uyghur. Cyrillic script has been used to write Uyghur inside areas antecedently dominated by Russians, & a second Roman script is used within Turkey & using your internet browser.

A below table occurs as comparison of a present Arabic alphabet (K̡ona Yezik̡), a Latin (Yengi Yezik̡) alphabet utilized from either 1969 to 1987, corresponding modern Turkish spellings & the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). A table is intended based on data from a choose of the present alphabet.

Note that a characters in the above table may non exist as diplayed aright by your computers web browser unless Unicode fonts come installed in the internet.

Text sample
On this button a sample of Universal Declaration of Person Rights (Article One) inside Uyghur (Yengi Yezik̡):