Uyghur language
Uyghur | |
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Uighur | |
ئۇيغۇر تىلى, Уйғур тили, Uyghur tili, Uyƣur tili, Uyğur tili | |
Pronunciation | [ʊj.ʁʊɾˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊɾ.tɪ.lɪ] |
Native to | China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan |
Ethnicity | Uyghurs |
Native speakers | 8–13 million (2021)[1] |
Turkic
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Early forms | Karakhanid
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Dialects |
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Uyghur alphabets: Perso-Arabic (official in China), Cyrillic, Latin, New Script | |
Official status | |
Official language in | China (Xinjiang)[2] |
Regulated by | Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang |
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 Language in China (Xinjiang) and outskirts of Xinjiang. | |
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Uyghur or Uighur (
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,[6] 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 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 32 characters each; the Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet also uses two iotated vowel letters (Ю and Я).
History
The Middle Turkic languages are the direct ancestor of the Karluk languages, including Uyghur and the Uzbek language.
Modern Uyghur is not descended from
Robert Barkley Shaw wrote, "In the Turkish of Káshghar and Yarkand (which some European linguists have called Uïghur, a name unknown to the inhabitants of those towns, who know their tongue simply as Túrki), ... This would seem in many case to be a misnomer as applied to the modern language of Kashghar".[13] Sven Hedin wrote, "In these cases it would be particularly inappropriate to normalize to the East Turkish literary language, because by so doing one would obliterate traces of national elements which have no immediate connection with the Kaschgar Turks, but on the contrary are possibly derived from the ancient Uigurs".[14]
Probably around 1077,
Middle Turkic languages, through the influence of Perso-Arabic after the 13th century, developed into the Chagatai language, a literary language used all across Central Asia until the early 20th century. After Chaghatai fell into extinction, the standard versions of Uyghur and Uzbek were developed from dialects in the Chagatai-speaking region, showing abundant Chaghatai influence. Uyghur language today shows considerable Persian influence as a result from Chagatai, including numerous Persian loanwords.[20]
Modern Uyghur religious literature includes the Taẕkirah, biographies of Islamic religious figures and saints. The Taẕkirah is a genre of literature written about Sufi Muslim saints in Altishahr. Written sometime in the period between 1700 and 1849, the Chagatai language (modern Uyghur) Taẕkirah of the Four Sacrificed Imams provides an account of the Muslim Karakhanid war against the Khotanese Buddhists, containing a story about Imams, from Mada'in city (possibly in modern-day Iraq) came 4 Imams who travelled to help the Islamic conquest of Khotan, Yarkand and Kashgar by Yusuf Qadir Khan, the Qarakhanid leader.[21] The shrines of Sufi Saints are revered in Altishahr as one of Islam's essential components and the tazkirah literature reinforced the sacredness of the shrines. Anyone who does not believe in the stories of the saints is guaranteed hellfire by the tazkirahs. It is written, "And those who doubt Their Holinesses the Imams will leave this world without faith and on Judgement Day their faces will be black ..." in the Tazkirah of the Four Sacrificed Imams.[22] Shaw translated extracts from the Tazkiratu'l-Bughra on the Muslim Turki war against the "infidel" Khotan.[23] The Turki-language Tadhkirah i Khwajagan was written by M. Sadiq Kashghari.[24] Historical works like the Tārīkh-i amniyya and Tārīkh-i ḥamīdi were written by Musa Sayrami.
The Qing dynasty commissioned dictionaries on the major languages of China which included Chagatai Turki language, such as the Pentaglot Dictionary.
The historical term "Uyghur" was appropriated for the language that had been known as Eastern Turki by government officials in the Soviet Union in 1922 and in Xinjiang in 1934.[25][26] Sergey Malov was behind the idea of renaming Turki to Uyghurs.[27] The use of the term Uyghur has led to anachronisms when describing the history of the people.[28] In one of his books the term Uyghur was deliberately not used by James A. Millward.[29] The name Khāqāniyya was given to the Qarluks who inhabited Kāshghar and Bālāsāghūn, the inhabitants were not Uighur, but their language has been retroactively labelled as Uighur by scholars.[12] The Qarakhanids called their own language the "Turk" or "Kashgar" language and did not use Uighur to describe their own language, Uighur was used to describe the language of non-Muslims but Chinese scholars have anachronistically called a Qarakhanid work written by Kashgari as "Uighur".[30] The name "Altishahri-Jungharian Uyghur" was used by the Soviet educated Uyghur Qadir Haji in 1927.[31]
Classification
The Uyghur language belongs to the
Dialects
It is widely accepted that Uyghur has three main dialects, all based on their geographical distribution. Each of these main dialects have a number of sub-dialects which all are mutually intelligible to some extent.
- Central: Spoken in an area stretching from Kumul southward to Yarkand
- Southern: Spoken in an area stretching from Guma eastward to Qarkilik
- Eastern: Spoken in an area stretching from Qarkilik northward to Qongköl . The Lop dialect (also known as Lopluk) that falls under the Eastern dialect of the Uighur language is classified as a critically endangered language.[32] It is spoken by less than 0.5% of the overall Uighur speakers population but has tremendous values in comparative research.
The Central dialects are spoken by 90% of the Uyghur-speaking population, while the two other branches of dialects only are spoken by a relatively small minority.[33]
Vowel reduction is common in the northern parts of where Uyghur is spoken, but not in the south.[34]
Status
Uyghur is spoken by an estimated 8–11 million people in total.[1] In addition to being spoken primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China, mainly by the Uyghur people, Uyghur was also spoken by some 300,000 people in Kazakhstan in 1993, some 90,000 in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in 1998, 3,000 in Afghanistan and 1,000 in Mongolia, both in 1982.[35] Smaller communities also exist in Albania, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States (New York City).[36]
The
According to reports in 2018, Uyghur script was erased from street signs and wall murals, as the Chinese government has launched a campaign to force Uyghur people to learn Mandarin. Any interest in Uyghur culture or language could lead to detention.[39] Recent news reports have also documented the existence of mandatory boarding schools where children are separated from their parents; children are punished for speaking Uyghur, making the language at a very high risk of extinction.[40]
The Chinese government have implemented bi-lingual education in most regions of Xinjiang.[41] The bi-lingual education system teaches Xinjiang's students all STEM classes using only Mandarin Chinese, or a combination of Uighur and Chinese. However, research have shown that due to differences in the order of words and grammar between the Uighur and the Chinese language, many students face obstacles in learning courses such as Mathematics under the bi-lingual education system.[42]
Uyghur language has been supported by Google Translate since February 2020.[43][44]
About 80
Poet and activist Muyesser Abdul'ehed teaches the language to diaspora children online as well as publishing a magazine written by children for children in Uyghur.[45]
Phonology
Vowels
The vowel inventory of Uyghur is the same as
Uyghur vowels are distinguished on the bases of height, backness and roundness. It has been argued, within a lexical phonology framework, that /e/ has a back counterpart /ɤ/, and modern Uyghur lacks a clear differentiation between /i/ and /ɯ
Front | Back | |||
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Unrounded | Rounded | Unrounded | Rounded | |
Close | i, ɪ | y, ʏ | (ɨ), (ɯ) | ʊ, u |
Mid | e | (ɤ) | o | |
Open | ɛ, æ | œ | ʌ, ɑ | ɔ |
Front | Back | ||||
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UR | R | UR | R | ||
Close | Arabic | ئى / ى | ئۈ / ۈ | ئى / ى | ئۇ / ۇ |
Latin | I i | Ü ü | I i | U u | |
IPA | [ɪ] | [ʏ] | ([ɯ]) | [u] | |
Mid | Arabic | ئې / ې | ئۆ / ۆ | ئو / و | |
Latin | Ë ë | Ö ö | O o | ||
IPA | [e] | [ø] | [o] | ||
Open | Arabic | ئە / ە | ئا / ا | ||
Latin | E e | A a | |||
IPA | æ | ɑ |
Uyghur vowels are by default
The high vowels undergo some tensing when they occur adjacent to
Both [], e.g. giram [ɡeˈrʌm] 'gram', xelqi [χɛlˈqʰe] 'his [etc.] nation', Finn [fen] 'Finn'. Between two syllables that contain a rounded back vowel each, they are realised as back, e.g. qolimu [qʰɔˈlɯmʊ] 'also his [etc.] arm'.
Any vowel undergoes laxing and backing when it occurs in uvular (/q/, /ʁ/, /χ/) and laryngeal (glottal) (/ɦ/, /ʔ/) environments, e.g. qiz [qʰɤz] 'girl', qëtiq [qʰɤˈtɯq] 'yogurt', qeghez [qʰæˈʁæz] 'paper', qum [qʰʊm] 'sand', qolay [qʰɔˈlʌɪ] 'convenient', qan [qʰɑn] 'blood', ëghiz [ʔeˈʁez] 'mouth', hisab [ɦɤˈsʌp] 'number', hës [ɦɤs] 'hunch', hemrah [ɦæmˈrʌh] 'partner', höl [ɦœɫ] 'wet', hujum [ɦuˈd͡ʒʊm] 'assault', halqa [ɦɑlˈqʰɑ] 'ring'.
Lowering tends to apply to the non-high vowels when a syllable-final liquid assimilates to them, e.g. kör [cʰøː] 'look!', boldi [bɔlˈdɪ] 'he [etc.] became', ders [dæːs] 'lesson', tar [tʰɑː(r)] 'narrow'.
Official Uyghur orthographies do not mark vowel length, and also do not distinguish between /ɪ/ (e.g., بىلىم /bɪlɪm/ 'knowledge') and back /ɯ/ (e.g., تىلىم /tɯlɯm/ 'my language'); these two sounds are in complementary distribution, but phonological analyses claim that they play a role in vowel harmony and are separate phonemes.[48] /e/ only occurs in words of non-Turkic origin and as the result of vowel raising.[49]
Uyghur has systematic vowel reduction (or vowel raising) as well as vowel harmony. Words usually agree in vowel backness, but compounds, loans, and some other exceptions often break vowel harmony. Suffixes surface with the rightmost [back] value in the stem, and /e, ɪ/ are transparent (as they do not contrast for backness). Uyghur also has rounding harmony.[50]
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Post- alveolar/Palatal |
Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
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Nasal | m | n
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ŋ | |||||||||
Stop
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p | b | t |
d
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tʃ | dʒ | k | ɡ | q | ʔ | ||
Fricative
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(f) | (v) | s |
z
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ʃ | ʒ | χ | ʁ | ɦ | |||
Trill | r
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Approximant
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l
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j | w |
Uyghur voiceless stops are aspirated word-initially and intervocalically.[51] The pairs /p, b/, /t, d/, /k, ɡ/, and /q, ʁ/ alternate, with the voiced member devoicing in syllable-final position, except in word-initial syllables. This devoicing process is usually reflected in the official orthography, but an exception has been recently made for certain Perso-Arabic loans.[52] Voiceless phonemes do not become voiced in standard Uyghur.[53]
Suffixes display a slightly different type of consonant alternation. The phonemes /ɡ/ and /ʁ/ anywhere in a suffix alternate as governed by vowel harmony, where /ɡ/ occurs with front vowels and /ʁ/ with back ones. Devoicing of a suffix-initial consonant can occur only in the cases of /d/ → [t], /ɡ/ → [k], and /ʁ/ → [q], when the preceding consonant is voiceless. Lastly, the rule that /g/ must occur with front vowels and /ʁ/ with back vowels can be broken when either [k] or [q] in suffix-initial position becomes assimilated by the other due to the preceding consonant being such.[54]
Loan phonemes have influenced Uyghur to various degrees. /d͡ʒ/ and /χ/ were borrowed from Arabic and have been nativized, while /ʒ/ from Persian less so. /f/ only exists in very recent Russian and Chinese loans, since Perso-Arabic (and older Russian and Chinese) /f/ became Uyghur /p/. Perso-Arabic loans have also made the contrast between /k, ɡ/ and /q, ʁ/ phonemic, as they occur as allophones in native words, the former set near front vowels and the latter near a back vowels. Some speakers of Uyghur distinguish /v/ from /w/ in Russian loans, but this is not represented in most orthographies. Other phonemes occur natively only in limited contexts, i.e. /h/ only in few interjections, /d/, /ɡ/, and /ʁ/ rarely initially, and /z/ only morpheme-final. Therefore, the pairs */t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ/, */ʃ, ʒ/, and */s, z/ do not alternate.[55][56]
Phonotactics
The primary
Orthography
The Karluk language started to be written with the Perso-Arabic script (Kona Yëziq) in the 10th century upon the conversion of the Kara-Khanids to Islam. This Perso-Arabic script (Kona Yëziq) was reformed in the 20th century with modifications to represent all Modern Uyghur sounds including short vowels and eliminate Arabic letters representing sounds not found in Modern Uyghur. Unlike many other modern
The four alphabets in use today can be seen below.
- Uyghur Arabic alphabet or UEY
- Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet or USY
- The Uyghur New Script or UYY
- Uyghur Latin alphabet or ULY
In the table below the alphabets are shown side-by-side for comparison, together with a phonetic transcription in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
No. | IPA | UEY | USY | UYY | ULY | No. | IPA | UEY | USY | UYY | ULY | |
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1 | /ɑ/ | ئا |
а |
A a | 17 | /q/ | ق |
қ |
ⱪ |
Q q | ||
2 | /ɛ/ ~ /æ/ | ئە |
ә |
Ə ə | E e | 18 | /k/ | ك |
к |
K k | ||
3 | /b/ | ب |
б |
B b | 19 | /ɡ/ | گ |
г |
G g | |||
4 | /p/ | پ |
п |
P p | 20 | /ŋ/ | ڭ |
ң |
ng
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5 | / t / |
ت |
т |
T t | 21 | / l / |
ل |
л |
L l | |||
6 | /dʒ/ | ج |
җ |
J j | J j | 22 | /m/ | م |
м |
M m | ||
zh
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7 | /tʃ/ | چ |
ч |
Q q | Ch ch | 23 | / n / |
ن |
н |
N n | ||
Ch ch | ||||||||||||
8 | /χ/ | خ |
х |
H h | X x | 24 | /h/ | ھ |
һ |
ⱨ |
H h | |
9 | / d / |
د |
д |
D d | 25 | /o/ | ئو |
о |
O o | |||
10 | / r / |
ر |
р |
R r | 26 | /u/ | ئۇ |
у |
U u | |||
11 | /z/ | ز |
з |
Z z | 27 | /ø/ | ئۆ |
Ө ө | Ɵ ɵ | Ö ö | ||
12 | /ʒ/ | ژ |
ж |
ⱬ |
zh
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28 | /y/ | ئۈ |
ү |
Ü ü | ||
13 | /s/ | س |
с |
S s | 29 | /v/~/w/ | ۋ |
в |
V v | W w | ||
W w | ||||||||||||
14 | /ʃ/ | ش |
ш |
X x | Sh sh | 30 | /e/ | ئې |
е |
E e | Ë ë (formerly É é) | |
Sh sh | ||||||||||||
15 | /ʁ/ | غ |
ғ |
ƣ |
Gh gh | 31 | /ɪ/ ~ /i/ | ئى |
и |
I i | ||
16 | /f/ | ف |
ф |
F f | 32 | /j/ | ي |
й |
Y y |
Grammar
Like other Turkic languages, Uyghur is a
Lexicon
The core lexicon of the Uyghur language is of Turkic stock, but due to different kinds of language contact throughout its history, it has adopted many loanwords. Kazakh, Uzbek and Chagatai are all Turkic languages which have had a strong influence on Uyghur. Many words of Arabic origin have come into the language through Persian and Tajik, which again have come through Uzbek and to a greater extent, Chagatai. Many words of Arabic origin have also entered the language directly through Islamic literature after the introduction of Islam around the 10th century.
Chinese in Xinjiang and Russian elsewhere had the greatest[vague] influence on Uyghur. Loanwords from these languages are all quite recent, although older borrowings exist as well, such as borrowings from Dungan, a Mandarin language spoken by the Dungan people of Central Asia. A number of loanwords of German origin have also reached Uyghur through Russian.[60]
Code-switching with Standard Chinese is common in spoken Uyghur, but stigmatized in formal contexts. Xinjiang Television and other mass media, for example, will use the rare Russian loanword aplisin (апельсин, apel'sin) for the word "orange", rather than the ubiquitous Mandarin loanword juze (橘子; júzi). In a sentence, this mixing might look like:[61]
مېنىڭ
Më-ning
1sg-GEN
تەلەفونىم
telfon-im
cellphone-POSS.1sg
گۇئەنجى،
guenji,
shut.down,
شۇڭا
shunga
so
سىزگە
siz-ge
2sg-DAT
دۇئەنشىن
duenshin
text.message
ئەۋەتەلمىدىم.
ewet-elmi-dim.
send-CAP.NEG-PST.1sg
My (cell) phone shut down (关机; guānjī), so I wasn't able to send you a text message (短信; duǎnxìn).
Below are some examples of common loanwords in the Uyghur language.
Origin | Source word | Source (in IPA) | Uyghur word | Uyghur (in IPA) | English |
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Persian | افسوس | [afˈsuːs] | epsus ئەپسۇس | /ɛpsus/ | pity |
گوشت | [ɡoːʃt] | gösh گۆش | /ɡøʃ/ | meat | |
ساعت | [ˈsaːʔat] | saet سائەت | /sɑʔɛt/ | hour | |
Russian | велосипед | [vʲɪləsʲɪˈpʲɛt] | wëlsipit ۋېلسىپىت | /welsipit/ | bicycle |
доктор | [ˈdoktər] | doxtur دوختۇر | /doχtur/ | doctor (medical) | |
поезд | [ˈpo.jɪst] | poyiz پويىز | /pojiz/ | train | |
область | [ˈobləsʲtʲ] | oblast ئوبلاست | /oblɑst/ | oblast, region | |
телевизор | [tʲɪlʲɪˈvʲizər] | tëlëwizor تېلېۋىزور | /televizor/ | television set | |
Chinese | 凉粉, liángfěn | [li̯ɑŋ˧˥fən˨˩] | lempung لەڭپۇڭ | /lɛmpuŋ/ | agar-agar jelly |
豆腐, dòufu | [tou̯˥˩fu˩] | dufu دۇفۇ | /dufu/ | bean curd/tofu | |
书记, shūjì | [ʂútɕî] | shuji شۇجى | /ʃud͡ʒi/ | secretary[62] | |
桌子, zhuōzi | [ʈʂwótsɹ̩] | joza جوزا | /d͡ʒozɑ/ | table[61] | |
冰箱, bīngxiāng | [píŋɕjáŋ] | bingshang بىڭشاڭ | /biŋʃɑŋ/ | refrigerator[61] |
Sample text
The following is a sample text in Uyghur of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with English.
Uyghur Arabic: | ھەممە ئادەم زانىدىنلا ئەركىن، ئىززەت-ھۆرمەت ۋە ھوقۇقتا باپباراۋەر بولۇپ تۇغۇلغان. ئۇلار ئەقىلغە ۋە ۋىجدانغا ئىگە ھەمدە بىر-بىرىگە قېرىنداشلىق مۇناسىۋىتىگە خاس روھ بىلەن موئامىلە قىلىشى كېرەك. |
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Uyghur Latin: | Hemme adem zanidinla erkin, izzet-hörmet we hoquqta bapbarawer bolup tughulghun. Ular eqilghe we wijdan'gha ige hemde bir-birige qërindashliq munasiwitige xas roh bilen moamile qilishi kërek. |
IPA: | /ɦɛm.mɛ ʔɑdɛm zɑnidinlɑ ʔɛrkin, ʔiz.zɛt hørmɛt wɛ ɦoquqtɑ bɑpbɑrɑwɛr bolup tuʁulʁun. ʔulɑr ʔɛqilʁɛ wɛ widʒdɑnʁɑ ʔigɛ ɦɛmdɛ bir birigɛ qerindɑʃliq munɑsiwitigɛ χɑs roh bilɛn moʔɑmilɛ qiliʃi kerɛk/ |
English original: | "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." |
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General
- Abdurehim, Esmael (2014). The Lopnor Dialect of Uyghur: A Descriptive Analysis (Doctoral thesis). University of Helsinki. ISBN 978-951-51-0384-0.
- Duval, Jean Rahman; Janbaz, Waris Abdukerim (2006). An Introduction to Latin-Script Uyghur (PDF). 2006 Middle East & Central Asia Politics, Economics, and Society Conference. Sept 7 – 9, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 October 2006.
- Dwyer, Arienne (2001). "Uyghur". In Garry, Jane; Rubino, Carl (eds.). Facts About the World's Languages. H. W. Wilson. pp. 786–790. ISBN 978-0-8242-0970-4.
- Engesæth, Tarjei; Yakup, Mahire; Dwyer, Arienne (2009). Greetings from the Teklimakan: A Handbook of Modern Uyghur, Volume 1 (PDF). ISBN 978-1-936153-03-9. Archived from the original(PDF) on 1 April 2010.
- Hahn, Reinhard F. (1991). Spoken Uyghur. London: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-98651-7.
- Hahn, Reinhard F. (1998). "Uyghur". In Johanson, Lars; Csató, Éva Ágnes (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. pp. 379–396. ISBN 978-0-415-08200-6.
- Johanson, Lars (1998). "History of Turkic". In Johanson, Lars; Csató, Éva Ágnes (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. pp. 81–125. ISBN 978-0-415-08200-6.
- Vaux, Bert (2001). "Disharmony and Derived Transparency in Uyghur Vowel Harmony" (PDF). Cambridge: Harvard University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2006 – via uwm.edu.
- Tömür, Hamüt (2003). Modern Uyghur Grammar (Morphology). Translated by Lee, Anne. İstanbul: Yıldız. ISBN 975-7981-20-6.
- Yakup, Abdurishid (2005). The Turfan Dialect of Uyghur. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 3-447-05233-3.
Further reading
- Hamut, Bahargül; Joniak-Lüthi, Agnieszka (2015). "The Language Choices and Script Debates among the Uyghur in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China". Linguistik Online. 70: 111–124. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.692.7380.
External links
Textbooks
- (free to use) Greetings from the Teklimakan: a handbook of Modern Uyghur from the University of Kansas
Dictionaries
- Uyghur-English Dictionary
- Online Uyghur, English, Chinese Multi-directional Dictionary (Arabic Alphabet)
- Uyghur–Chinese Dictionary
- (in Chinese)丝路语通 Online Uyghur–Chinese Dictionary and translation services
- Uyghur English Dictionary (in Uyghur Latin, Arabic and Cyrillic scripts)
Radio
- TRT: Uyghur
- Uyghur edition Archived 28 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine of China Radio International
Television
- Uyghur edition Archived 26 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine of China Central Television
Fonts
- Arabic Uyghur in different fonts
- Unicode based TrueType/OpenType fonts of the Uyghur Computer Science Association
Romanizations
- The full text of Uighur romanization table at Wikisource, published by the Library of Congress.
- Transliteration of Minority-Language Place Names Using Hanyu Pinyin Letters (少数民族语地名汉语拼音字母音译转写法)[1] (in Chinese)
- Uyghur Scripts Latinization Project (维吾尔文拉丁化方案) [2] (in Chinese)