Modern Uyghur
E334670
Modern Uyghur is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghur people of Xinjiang in northwest China, written in several scripts and serving as a major literary and cultural language of the region.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modern Uyghur canonical | 2 |
| Central Uyghur dialects | 1 |
| New Uyghur | 1 |
| Standard Uyghur | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3162910 — 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: Modern Uyghur Context triple: [Chagatai Turkic, influenced, Modern Uyghur]
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A.
Uyghur Arabic alphabet
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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B.
Uyghur Latin alphabet
The Uyghur Latin alphabet is a romanized writing system developed for the Uyghur language, used primarily in digital communication and linguistic transcription.
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C.
Uyghur language (historically)
The historical Uyghur language refers to earlier Turkic varieties used by the Uyghur people, which were written in scripts such as Perso-Arabic and played a key role in the literary and cultural history of Central Asia.
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D.
Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet
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.
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E.
Old Uyghur alphabet
The Old Uyghur alphabet is an early Turkic writing system used by the Uyghur people, derived from Middle Iranian scripts and influential in the development of later scripts such as Mongolian.
- 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: Modern Uyghur Target entity description: Modern Uyghur is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghur people of Xinjiang in northwest China, written in several scripts and serving as a major literary and cultural language of the region.
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A.
Uyghur Arabic alphabet
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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B.
Uyghur Latin alphabet
The Uyghur Latin alphabet is a romanized writing system developed for the Uyghur language, used primarily in digital communication and linguistic transcription.
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C.
Uyghur language (historically)
The historical Uyghur language refers to earlier Turkic varieties used by the Uyghur people, which were written in scripts such as Perso-Arabic and played a key role in the literary and cultural history of Central Asia.
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D.
Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet
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.
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E.
Old Uyghur alphabet
The Old Uyghur alphabet is an early Turkic writing system used by the Uyghur people, derived from Middle Iranian scripts and influential in the development of later scripts such as Mongolian.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Turkic language
ⓘ
natural language ⓘ subject–object–verb language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Ili Turki language
ⓘ
Uzbek ⓘ
surface form:
Uzbek language
|
| ethnicLanguageOf |
Uyghurs
ⓘ
surface form:
Uyghur people
|
| GlottologCode | uygh1240 ⓘ |
| hasApproximateSpeakers | 10–12 million ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Modern Uyghur
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Uyghur dialects
Eastern Uyghur dialects ⓘ Southern Uyghur dialects ⓘ |
| hasEndonym |
Uyghur language
ⓘ
surface form:
Uyghur tili
Uyghur language ⓘ
surface form:
Uyghurche
Uyghur language ⓘ
surface form:
ئۇيغۇر تىلى
Uyghur language ⓘ
surface form:
ئۇيغۇرچە
|
| hasMorphologicalType | suffixing ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | vowel harmony ⓘ |
| hasScriptHistory | Arabic script adopted widely in 10th century for Old Uyghur and Chagatai ⓘ |
| hasScriptReform |
Cyrillic-based script used in Soviet Union
ⓘ
Latin-based script introduced in 20th century ⓘ Uyghur Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
Uyghur New Script promoted in mid-20th century in China
|
| hasWritingSystem |
Uyghur Arabic alphabet
ⓘ
Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet ⓘ Uyghur Latin alphabet ⓘ Uyghur Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
Uyghur New Script (Uyghur Yëngi Yëziq)
|
| ISO639-1Code | ug ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Code | uig ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Karluk ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Turkic ⓘ |
| majorCenter |
Hotan
ⓘ
Kashgar ⓘ Ürümqi ⓘ |
| officialStatus | regional official language in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Afghanistan
ⓘ
Australia ⓘ Canada ⓘ China ⓘ Europe ⓘ Kazakhstan ⓘ Kyrgyzstan ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ Saudi Arabia ⓘ Turkey ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Uzbekistan ⓘ Xinjiang ⓘ
surface form:
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
|
| standardBasedOn |
speech of Kashgar area
ⓘ
speech of Ürümqi area ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Altaic languages (proposed)
ⓘ
surface form:
Altaic language (proposed)
Common Turkic language ⓘ Karluk languages ⓘ
surface form:
Karluk language
agglutinative language ⓘ |
| usedAs | lingua franca among some ethnic groups in Xinjiang ⓘ |
| usedFor |
education in Xinjiang
ⓘ
literature of Uyghur people ⓘ media in Xinjiang ⓘ religious texts among Uyghur Muslims ⓘ |
| usesCaseMarkers | postpositions ⓘ |
| writingDirection |
left-to-right (Cyrillic script)
ⓘ
left-to-right (Latin script) ⓘ right-to-left (Arabic script) ⓘ |
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: Modern Uyghur Description of subject: Modern Uyghur is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghur people of Xinjiang in northwest China, written in several scripts and serving as a major literary and cultural language of the region.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Standard Uyghur
this entity surface form:
New Uyghur
this entity surface form:
Central Uyghur dialects