Uyghur language
Turkic language spoken by the Uyghur people From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Uyghur (ئۇيغۇرچە, Uyghurche;[3][4] formerly known as Eastern Turkish) is a Turkic language with 8 to 11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. There are several writing systems used to write Uyghur. While Uyghurs usually use the Uyghur alphabet, an alphabet based on the Arabic alphabet, there are also two Latin and one Cyrillic alphabet that can be used to write Uyghur.

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