• official writing system used for Uyghur in Xinjiang, whereas other alphabets like the Uyghur Latin and Uyghur Cyrillic alphabets are still in use outside China...
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  • prototype for the Mongolian and Manchu alphabets. The Old Uyghur alphabet was brought to Mongolia by Tata-tonga. The Old Uyghur script was used between the 8th...
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  • Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghurs Uyghur alphabets, any of four systems used to write the language Uyghur Khaganate, a Turkic empire in the mid...
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  • The Uyghur Latin alphabet (Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر لاتىن يېزىقى, Uyghur Latin Yëziqi, ULY, Уйғур Латин Йезиқи) is an auxiliary alphabet for the Uyghur language...
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    for writing the Uyghur language, primarily by Uyghurs living in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It is one of several Uyghur alphabets and has been the...
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    Latin alphabets and one Cyrillic alphabet are also used, though to a much lesser extent. The two Latin-based and the Arabic-based Uyghur alphabets have...
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    developed as an adaptation of the Old Uyghur alphabet for the Mongolian language.: 545  Tata-tonga, a 13th-century Uyghur scribe captured by Genghis Khan,...
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  • The Uyghur New Script (ئۇيغۇر يېڭى يېزىقى, Uyghur yëngi yëziqi) is a Latin alphabet with both Uniform Turkic Alphabet and Pinyin influence, used for writing...
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  • various minority languages of China and promoting Cyrillic-derived alphabets. The Uyghurs of China thus also came to use the Cyrillic script for a period...
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    There exist several alphabets used by Turkic languages, i.e. alphabets used to write Turkic languages: The New Turkic Alphabet (Yañalif) in use in the...
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    The Kyrgyz alphabets are the alphabets used to write the Kyrgyz language. Kyrgyz uses the following alphabets: The Cyrillic script is officially used in...
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  • Old Uyghur (simplified Chinese: 回鹘语; traditional Chinese: 回鶻語; pinyin: Huíhú yǔ) is a Turkic language which was spoken in Qocho from the 9th–14th centuries...
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    cursive script. The "Uyghur" cursive script eventually developed into the Old Uyghur alphabet, which was used to write the Old Uyghur language. This child...
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    of phonetic symbols. Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script. The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and...
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    Phonetic Alphabet symbol ʔ. In Arabizi, it is either written as "2" or not written at all. In the Phoenician, Hebrew and Aramaic alphabets, from which...
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    contains Uyghur text. Without proper rendering support, you may see unjoined letters or other symbols instead of Uyghur script. The Uyghurs, alternatively...
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    government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized...
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    Arabic alphabets are abjads, with the versions used for some languages, such as Kurdish dialect of Sorani, Uyghur, Mandarin, and Bosniak, being alphabets. It...
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    Yugurs (redirect from Sari Uyghur)
    has preserved many archaisms of Old Uyghur. Both Yugur languages are now unwritten, although the Old Uyghur alphabet was in use in some Yugur communities...
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  • century Uyghur manuscripts from Gansu and Xinjiang (Old Uyghur), in various scripts including Brahmi, Tibetan, Syriac, and Sogdian alphabets, treating...
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  • The Uyghur Khaganate (also Uyghur Empire or Uighur Khaganate, self defined as Toquz-Oghuz country; Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰆𐰴𐰕:𐰆𐰍𐰕:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣, romanized: Toquz...
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  • Tata-tonga (category Uyghurs)
    Tatatungү‑a) was a 13th-century Uyghur scribe captured by Genghis Khan from the Naimans. He was involved in bringing the Old Uyghur alphabet to the Mongolian Plateau...
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  • scripts and Sogdian alphabet, into the alphabets of North Asia such as the Old Turkic alphabet (probably), the Old Uyghur alphabet, the Mongolian writing...
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    Naimans and captured a Uyghur scribe called Tata-tonga, who then adapted the Uyghur alphabet—a descendant of the Syriac alphabet, via Sogdian—to write...
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  • script is derived from descendants of the Aramaic alphabet in particular via the Pahlavi and Sogdian alphabets of Persia, or possibly via Kharosthi used to...
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    transcribe Tibetan and Chagatai (related to Uyghur) words. Despite its alphabetic nature, the Manchu "alphabet" was traditionally taught as a syllabary to...
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    Schwa (Cyrillic) (category Cyrillic alphabet stubs)
    Latin-derived alphabets contain a letter of identical appearance (Ə/ə). In many Turkic languages such as Azeri, Bashkir, Kazakh, Uyghur and Tatar, as...
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  • The history of the Uyghur people extends over more than two millennia and can be divided into four distinct phases: Pre-Imperial (300 BC – AD 630), Imperial...
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    Sarikoli language (category Articles containing Uyghur-language text)
    Russia, used an alphabet similar to that of the Wakhi language in hers. The majority of Sarikoli-speakers attend schools using Uyghur as the medium of...
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    Michael Everson's Alphabets of Europe Evolution of alphabets, animation by Prof. Robert Fradkin at the University of Maryland How the Alphabet Was Born from...
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