Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet

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The Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet is a Cyrillic-based script historically used by Uyghur communities, particularly in the former Soviet Union, to write the Uyghur language.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet canonical 4

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cyrillic-based script
alphabet
writing system
associatedWith Central Asia
Soviet Latinization campaign
surface form: Soviet language policy
basedOn Russian Cyrillic alphabet
competesWith Uyghur Arabic alphabet
Uyghur Latin alphabet
hasCharacterSetType alphabetic
hasConsonantRepresentation explicit consonants
hasDigitalEncoding Unicode Cyrillic block
hasScriptProperty case distinction
lowercase letters
uppercase letters
hasVowelRepresentation explicit vowels
historicalUsage 20th century
late Soviet period
ISO15924Code Cyrl
languageWritten Uyghur language
surface form: Uyghur
orthographyType phonemic
relatedAlphabet Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet
Kyrgyz Cyrillic alphabet
Uzbek Cyrillic alphabet
scriptDirection left-to-right
scriptFamily Cyrillic script
status historical script
minority usage
usedBy Uyghurs
surface form: Uyghur people
usedByCommunity Uyghur diaspora in former Soviet Union
usedFor writing the Uyghur language
usedForEducation Uyghur schools in Soviet Union
usedIn Kazakh SSR
surface form: Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic

Kazakhstan
Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic
Kyrgyzstan
Soviet Union
Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic
Tajikistan
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
Turkmenistan
Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
Uzbekistan
usedInMedia Uyghur-language publications in Soviet Union
writingSystemFor Uyghur in Central Asia
writingSystemOf Uyghur language
writingSystemType segmental alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Uyghurs writingSystem Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet
Uyghur Arabic alphabet competesWith Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet
Uyghur Latin alphabet relatedTo Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet
Modern Uyghur hasWritingSystem Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet