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| | Name | Uyghur |
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| Pronunciation | [ʔʊjˈʁʊrtʃɛ] |
| Familycolor | Altaic |
| States | China, Kazakhstan; also spoken in Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and Uzbekistan |
| Region | Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region |
| Nation | Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region |
| Agency | Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region |
| Speakers | 8-11 million |
| Rank | 76 |
| Fam1 | Altaic (controversial) |
| Fam2 | Turkic |
| Fam3 | Uyghuric |
| Script | See Uyghur alphabet |
| Agency | Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region |
| Iso1 | ug |
| Iso2 | uig |
| Iso3 | uig |
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Uyghur, formerly known as Eastern Turki, is a Turkic language spoken primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a Central Asian region administered by China, mainly by the Uyghur people. It is also spoken by some 300,000 people in Kazakhstan as of 1993, some 90,000 in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as of 1998, 3,000 in Afghanistan and 1,000 in Mongolia, both as of 1982.
The Uyghurs are one of the 56 official nationalities in China, and Uyghur is an official language of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, along with Mandarin Chinese. Mandarin Chinese is not spoken widely in southern Xinjiang. However, due to the policy of mandatory Mandarin-language education for all of Xinjiang, knowledge of Mandarin is increasing. Today the Uyghur language is also used as a lingua franca among non-Uyghurs, such as the Xibes, Wakhis, Tajiks of Xinjiang and Daurs, and even some Russians. A number of ethnic minorities in China even use Uyghur as a first language; these include the Tatars, Uzbeks and Kyrgyz.
The language can be heard in most social domains, and also in schools, government and courts.
Like many other Turkic languages, Uyghur displays vowel harmony and agglutination, lacks noun classes or grammatical gender, and is a left-branching language with Subject Object Verb word order.
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