Uyghur
Turkic language spoken by the Uyghur people
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Summary
Uyghur is a natural language[1]. Uyghur ranks in the top 9% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,719 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Ethnic group: Uyghurs[3]
- Country: People's Republic of China[4], Uzbekistan[5], Kazakhstan[6], Kyrgyzstan[7], Afghanistan[8], Mongolia[9], Albania[10], Turkey[11]
- Instance of: modern language[12]
- Subclass of: Eastern Karluk[13]
- Writing system: Arabic script[14], Cyrillic script[15], Latin script[16]
- Commons category: Uyghur Arabic script[17]
- Wikimedia language code: ug[18]
- Topic's main category: Category:Uyghur language[19]
- Commons gallery: Uyghur language[20]
- Described at URL: https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=uyg[21], https://lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=870[22]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 10,400,000[23], 10,389,840[24]
- Replaces: Chagatai[25]
- Topic has template: Template:Uyghur language[26]
- Native label: ئۇيغۇر[27], ئۇيغۇر تىلى[28], ئۇيغۇرچە[29]
- Different from: Oghuric[30]
- Indigenous to: Gansu[31], Xinjiang[32], Kazakhstan[33], Govi-Altai Province[34]
- Female form of label: la langue ouïghoure[35]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/UIG[36]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q25695120[37], Q25696244[38]
- Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[39]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[40], agglutinative language[41], subject–verb–object[42]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Uyghur-language films[43]
Why It Matters
Uyghur has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] Uyghur is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]