Uyghur language

Uyghur
Uighur
ئۇيغۇرچە / ئۇيغۇر تىلى
Uyghur written in Perso-Arabic script
Pronunciation	[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Native to	China  Mongolia  Russia  Kazakhstan  Kyrgyzstan  Tajikistan  Afghanistan  Pakistan  India
Ethnicity	Uyghur
Native speakers	25 million (2016)[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Karluk Uyghur
Early forms	Karakhanid Chagatai Eastern Turki
Writing system	Arabic (official, Uyghur alphabet) Latin Cyrillic
Official status
Official language in	China Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region[2]
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
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Uyghur edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

1. ↑ Uyghur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. ↑ "China". Ethnologue.
3. ↑ In English, the name of the ethnicity and its language is spelled variously as Uyghur, Uighur, Uygur and Uigur, with the preferred spelling being Uyghur. Many English speakers pronounce it as /ˈwiː.ɡər/, though the native pronunciation is [ʔʊjˈʁʊr]. See Mair, Victor (13 July 2009). "A Little Primer of Xinjiang Proper Nouns". Language Log. Retrieved 16 July 2009.
4. ↑ Its name in other languages in which it might be often referred to is as follows:
   • simplified Chinese: 维吾尔语; traditional Chinese: 維吾爾語; pinyin: Wéiwú'ěryǔ in Chinese
   • Уйгурский (язык) (transliteration: Uygurskiy (yazyk)) in Russian