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Uyghur language

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Uyghur, spelled Uighur in the source, is the Turkic language of the Uighur people of Central Asia. It has been classified as belonging to the Southeastern or Eastern Turki subgroup of the Turkic languages, and its northern dialect came to represent the official Soviet Uighur language. The writing of Uighur was changed from a modified Arabic script to romanization in 1928, and Soviet Uighur has been written in the Cyrillic script since 1947. The older Uighur script was based on the Sogdian writing system, and the name Uighur is said to mean union.

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Turkic, Language Families
Source Encyclopedia.com: Uighur
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Uyghur

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Source Wikipedia: UyghurLeadtier 3
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They speak Uyghur, a Karluk language that shares the same origin with Uzbek.

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China

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China [CN]
India

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India [IN]
Kazakhstan

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Source Glottolog: Glottolog languoid page: UighurCountries
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Kazakhstan [KZ]
Kyrgyzstan

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Kyrgyzstan [KG]
Mongolia

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Mongolia [MN]
Pakistan

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Pakistan [PK]
Uzbekistan

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Source Glottolog: Glottolog languoid page: UighurCountries
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Uzbekistan [UZ]
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1. Glottolog: Glottolog languoid page: Uighur
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not endangered
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Encyclopedia.com: Uighur
In Family: Turkic, Language section
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The Uighur language has been classified as belonging to the Southeastern or Eastern ("Turki") Subgroup of Turkic languages.
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