Significant communities of Uyghur language speakers are located in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan and various other countries have Uyghur language-speaking expatriate communities.
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16 Facts About Uyghur language
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Robert Dankoff wrote that the Turkic language spoken in Kashgar and used in Kara Khanid works was Karluk, not Uyghur.
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The use of the term Uyghur language has led to anachronisms when describing the history of the people.
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The name Khaqaniyya was given to the Qarluks who inhabited Kashghar and Balasaghun, the inhabitants were not Uighur, but their Uyghur language has been retroactively labelled as Uighur by scholars.
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The name "Altishahri-Jungharian Uyghur language" was used by the Soviet educated Uyghur language Qadir Haji in 1927.
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Uyghur language belongs to the Karluk Turkic branch of the Turkic language family.
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Uyghurs are one of the 56 recognized ethnic groups in China and Uyghur is an official language of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, along with Standard Chinese.
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Uyghur language has been supported by Google Translate since February 2020.
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Uyghur language vowels are distinguished on the bases of height, backness and roundness.
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Uyghur language vowels are by default short, but long vowels exist because of historical vowel assimilation and through loanwords.
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Uyghur language has systematic vowel reduction as well as vowel harmony.
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Some speakers of Uyghur language distinguish from in Russian loans, but this is not represented in most orthographies.
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In general, Uyghur language phonology tends to simplify phonemic consonant clusters by means of elision and epenthesis.
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Karluk Uyghur language started to be written with the Perso-Arabic script in the 10th century upon the conversion of the Kara-Khanids to Islam.
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Unlike many other modern Turkic languages, Uyghur is primarily written using an Arabic alphabet, although a Cyrillic alphabet and two Latin alphabets are in use to a much lesser extent.
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Core lexicon of the Uyghur language is of Turkic stock, but due to different kinds of language contact throughout its history, it has adopted many loanwords.
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