Language/Uighur
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Facts about Uighur[edit | edit source]
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
uig - Autonyms (how to write "Uighur" in Uighur):
ئۇيغۇر تىلى / Уйғур тили / Uyghur tili / Uyƣur tili / ئۇيغۇرچە / Уйғурчә / Uyghurche / Uyƣurqə - Other names for "Uighur":
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga, Novouygur - The Uighur language is spoken in:
China
The Uyghur or Uighur language is a Turkic language, written in a Uyghur Perso-Arabic script, with 10 to 15 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur speakers are located in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan and various other countries have Uyghur-speaking expatriate communities. Uyghur is an official language of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is widely used in both social and official spheres, as well as in print, television and radio and is used as a common language by other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
Sources[edit | edit source]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_language
Uighur Dictionaries[edit | edit source]
• UyghurDictionary.com: Uyghur-English dictionary
• Uyghurche: Uyghur-Chinese dictionary
• Eastern Turki glossary by Eric Schluessel & Nicholas Kontovas
• A concise Uighur-English dictionary [PDF] by Daniel St. John (1999)
• Travelling in Xinjiang, Uyghur conversation [PDF] phrasebook (2000)
• Dictionnaire turk-oriental: Eastern Turki-French dictionary, by Abel Pavet de Courteille (1870)
• A collection of Uyghur proverbs: friends, enemies and fools, by Michael Fiddler (2017)
• An analysis of recent loans into the standard Uyghur lexicon by Nicholas Kontovas (2008)
Sources[edit | edit source]
https://www.lexilogos.com/english/uyghur_dictionary.htm
Free Uighur Lessons[edit | edit source]
Language Exchange[edit | edit source]
Forum[edit | edit source]
Tools[edit | edit source]
Marketplace[edit | edit source]
Uyghur Online Virtual Keyboard[edit | edit source]
Last Lessons[edit | edit source]
Common words — Word order — Verbs — Nouns and adjectives — Basic phrases — Possession — Pronouns — Adverbs — Questions — Alphabet and pronunciation — How to Say Hello and Greetings