Uyghur (ئۇيغۇرچە Uyghurche Уйғурчә, or ئۇيغۇر تىلى Uyghur tili Уйғур тили; IPA [ʔʊjˈʁʊrtʃɛ]), formerly known as Eastern Turki, is a Turkic language spoken in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a Central Asian region administered by China, mainly by the Uyghur ethnic group. It is spoken by 10 million (2007) in China, mostly in Xinjiang. Uyghur is also spoken by some 300,000 in Kazakhstan, and there are Uyghur-speaking communities in Afghanistan,...
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Uyghur (ئۇيغۇرچە Uyghurche Уйғурчә, or ئۇيغۇر تىلى Uyghur tili Уйғур тили; IPA [ʔʊjˈʁʊrtʃɛ]), formerly known as Eastern Turki, is a Turkic language spoken in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a Central Asian region administered by China, mainly by the Uyghur ethnic group. It is spoken by 10 million (2007) in China, mostly in Xinjiang. Uyghur is also spoken by some 300,000 in Kazakhstan, and there are Uyghur-speaking communities in Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA, and Uzbekistan.
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.
The Uyghur language belongs to the Uyghuric or Southeastern group of the Turkic language family, which is controversially a branch of the Altaic language family.
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