Uyghur Arabic alphabet
E169406
The Uyghur Arabic alphabet is a Perso-Arabic–based script adapted to represent the sounds of the Uyghur language, historically used by Uyghur communities in Central Asia.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uyghur Arabic alphabet canonical | 5 |
| Uyghur script | 2 |
| Arabic-based Uyghur script | 1 |
| Uyghur (Arabic script) | 1 |
| Uyghur Arabic script | 1 |
| Uyghur language | 1 |
| modern Uyghur Arabic script | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1472905 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Uyghur Arabic alphabet Context triple: [Uyghur language (historically), writingSystem, Uyghur Arabic alphabet]
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A.
Kazakh Arabic alphabet
The Kazakh Arabic alphabet is a modified version of the Arabic script historically used to write the Kazakh language, particularly before the adoption of Cyrillic and Latin-based alphabets.
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B.
Kazakh Latin alphabet
The Kazakh Latin alphabet is a modern script based on the Latin writing system that has been adopted for writing the Kazakh language as part of Kazakhstan’s language reform and modernization efforts.
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C.
Bashkir Cyrillic alphabet
The Bashkir Cyrillic alphabet is the adapted version of the Cyrillic script used to write the Bashkir language, incorporating additional letters to represent its specific phonetic features.
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D.
Takri script
The Takri script is an abugida historically used in the western Himalayas, particularly in regions of present-day Himachal Pradesh and Jammu, to write several Indo-Aryan languages such as Dogri and Jaunsari.
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E.
Old Turkic script
The Old Turkic script is an ancient runiform alphabet used by early Turkic peoples to write the earliest known Turkic inscriptions across Central Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Uyghur Arabic alphabet Target entity description: The Uyghur Arabic alphabet is a Perso-Arabic–based script adapted to represent the sounds of the Uyghur language, historically used by Uyghur communities in Central Asia.
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A.
Kazakh Arabic alphabet
The Kazakh Arabic alphabet is a modified version of the Arabic script historically used to write the Kazakh language, particularly before the adoption of Cyrillic and Latin-based alphabets.
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B.
Kazakh Latin alphabet
The Kazakh Latin alphabet is a modern script based on the Latin writing system that has been adopted for writing the Kazakh language as part of Kazakhstan’s language reform and modernization efforts.
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C.
Bashkir Cyrillic alphabet
The Bashkir Cyrillic alphabet is the adapted version of the Cyrillic script used to write the Bashkir language, incorporating additional letters to represent its specific phonetic features.
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D.
Takri script
The Takri script is an abugida historically used in the western Himalayas, particularly in regions of present-day Himachal Pradesh and Jammu, to write several Indo-Aryan languages such as Dogri and Jaunsari.
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E.
Old Turkic script
The Old Turkic script is an ancient runiform alphabet used by early Turkic peoples to write the earliest known Turkic inscriptions across Central Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abjad
ⓘ
alphabet ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| adaptedFrom |
Arabic alphabet
ⓘ
Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
surface form:
Persian alphabet
|
| basedOn | Perso-Arabic script ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet
ⓘ
Uyghur Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| designedToRepresent | Uyghur phonology ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
consonant letters
ⓘ
diacritics ⓘ vowel letters ⓘ |
| hasDistinctLettersFor |
Uyghur consonants
ⓘ
Uyghur vowels ⓘ |
| hasISO15924Code | Arab ⓘ |
| hasLetter |
ئ
ⓘ
ا ⓘ ب ⓘ ت ⓘ ج ⓘ خ ⓘ د ⓘ ر ⓘ ز ⓘ س ⓘ ش ⓘ غ ⓘ ف ⓘ ق ⓘ ك ⓘ ل ⓘ م ⓘ ن ⓘ و ⓘ ى ⓘ ي ⓘ پ ⓘ چ ⓘ ژ ⓘ ڭ ⓘ گ ⓘ ھ ⓘ ۆ ⓘ ۈ ⓘ ې ⓘ ە ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeBlock |
Arabic
ⓘ
Arabic Extended-A ⓘ Arabic Supplement ⓘ |
| historicallyUsedBy | Uyghur communities in Central Asia ⓘ |
| officialStatusIn |
Xinjiang
ⓘ
surface form:
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
|
| primaryUsagePeriod |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| representsLanguageFamily | Turkic languages ⓘ |
| scriptFamily |
Arabic alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Uyghurs
ⓘ
surface form:
Uyghur people
|
| usedFor | Uyghur language ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Central Asia
ⓘ
Xinjiang ⓘ |
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Uyghur Arabic alphabet Description of subject: The Uyghur Arabic alphabet is a Perso-Arabic–based script adapted to represent the sounds of the Uyghur language, historically used by Uyghur communities in Central Asia.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Uyghur (Arabic script)
this entity surface form:
Uyghur language
this entity surface form:
Uyghur script
this entity surface form:
modern Uyghur Arabic script
this entity surface form:
Uyghur Arabic script
this entity surface form:
Arabic-based Uyghur script
this entity surface form:
Uyghur script