Uyghur language

E458717
Turkic language agglutinative language natural language

The Uyghur language is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in China’s Xinjiang region, written in several scripts and serving as a major language of Central Asia.

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Observed surface forms (8)

Surface form Occurrences
Uyghur 14
Standard Uyghur 2
Turki (Chagatai/Mughal court language) 1

Statements (59)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkic language ⓘ
agglutinative language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
alsoSpokenIn Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ
Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ
Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ
Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ
Kyrgyzstan NERFINISHED ⓘ
Pakistan NERFINISHED ⓘ
Saudi Arabia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
Uzbekistan NERFINISHED ⓘ
belongsToMacroArea Central Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ
East Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Uzbek language NERFINISHED ⓘ
directionOfWriting right-to-left ⓘ
family Turkic languages ⓘ
geneticRelation Kazakh language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Kyrgyz language ⓘ
Old Uyghur language ⓘ
Uzbek language NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic NERFINISHED ⓘ
Chinese ⓘ
Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ
Russian NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasVowelHarmony true ⓘ
historicalScript Arabic script ⓘ
Cyrillic script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ
Uyghur Ereb Yëziqi NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageCodeISO639-1 ug ⓘ
languageCodeISO639-2 uig ⓘ
languageCodeISO639-3 uig ⓘ
linguisticAncestor Karluk languages ⓘ
majorDialect Central Uyghur NERFINISHED ⓘ
Eastern Uyghur NERFINISHED ⓘ
Southern Uyghur NERFINISHED ⓘ
morphologyType agglutinative ⓘ
numberOfSpeakersEstimate 10–15 million ⓘ
officialStatusRegion Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region NERFINISHED ⓘ
primaryCountry China NERFINISHED ⓘ
primaryEthnicGroup Uyghur people NERFINISHED ⓘ
primaryRegion Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region NERFINISHED ⓘ
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn China NERFINISHED ⓘ
regulatingBody Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Language Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ
scriptStatusInChina Uyghur Arabic alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ
official script ⓘ
standardBasedOnDialect Central Uyghur NERFINISHED ⓘ
standardDialectCenter Kashgar NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ürümqi NERFINISHED ⓘ
subfamily Karluk branch ⓘ
typology subject–object–verb ⓘ
usedInEducation Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedInMedia Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region NERFINISHED ⓘ
writingSystem Uyghur Arabic alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ
Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ
Uyghur Latin alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ
Uyghur New Script NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (35)

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

Old Turkic language → ancestorOf → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
Turkic aspectology → appliesTo → Uyghur language ⓘ
Turkology → focusesOn → Uyghur language ⓘ
Modern Uyghur → hasEndonym → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: ئۇيغۇرچە
Modern Uyghur → hasEndonym → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghurche
Modern Uyghur → hasEndonym → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: ئۇيغۇر تىلى
Modern Uyghur → hasEndonym → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur tili
Sibe language → hasLexicalInfluenceFrom → Uyghur language ⓘ
Southeastern Turkic → hasMajorLanguage → Uyghur language ⓘ
Karluk branch → hasMajorModernStandardLanguage → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Standard Uyghur
Karluk languages → hasMajorStandardVariety → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Standard Uyghur
Karluk languages → hasMember → Uyghur language ⓘ
Southeastern Turkic → hasMember → Uyghur language ⓘ
Karluk branch → includes → Uyghur language ⓘ
Common Turkic branch → includesLanguage → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
Aksu → language → Uyghur language ⓘ
Book of Giants → language → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
East Turkestan Republic → language → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
meshrep → language → Uyghur language ⓘ
subject surface form: Meshrep
Uyghur Latin alphabet → language → Uyghur language ⓘ
Yarkand River → languageOfName → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
Mughal–Safavid Wars → languageOfSources → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Turki (Chagatai/Mughal court language)
Turpan Depression → languageRegion → Uyghur language ⓘ
Central Asian American → languageSpoken → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uighur
Turpan → languageSpoken → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
Hotan → languageUsed → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
Junggar → languageUsed → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
Korla → languageUsed → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
Urumqi → languageUsed → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
Yining → languageUsed → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet → languageWritten → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
Ürümqi → localLanguage → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
Muztagh Ata → nameLanguage → Uyghur language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Uyghur
Uyghur Arabic alphabet → usedFor → Uyghur language ⓘ
Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet → writingSystemOf → Uyghur language ⓘ