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Uyghur Latin alphabet

Uyghur Latin alphabet

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The Uyghur Latin alphabet (Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر لاتىن يېزىقى, Uyghur Latin Yëziqi, ULY, Уйғур Латин Йезиқи) is an auxiliary alphabet for the Uyghur language based on the Latin script. Uyghur is primarily written in Uyghur Arabic alphabet and sometimes in Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet.

Construction

The ULY project was finalized at Xinjiang University, Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), People's Republic of China in July 2001, at the fifth conference of a series held there for that purpose that started in November 2000. In January 2008, the ULY project was amended and identified by Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Working Committee of Minorities' Language and Writing.[1]

The letters in the ULY are, in order:

More information Capital Letter, A ...

Purpose

The creators of ULY strongly emphasized that “the proposed alphabet should not replace [the Persian-Arab Uyghur alphabet] nor should its introduction represent a new reform of the writing system. It is to be used solely in computer-related fields as an ancillary writing system”.[2]

Public reception

ULY had a heavy public relations presence on both the Internet and official Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region media but despite official efforts to play down the sense of a massive reform, ULY has acquired that connotation and the public seems wary of it. The importance of having one-to-one correspondence between Latin and Arabic is noteworthy.

Comparison of orthographies

The different orthographies are compared in the following table.

Comparative alphabets: Arabic-Script Uyghur, Latin-Script Uyghur
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  1. Before the 2008 revision, could be confounded with j used for /ʒ/, which is now only written zh.
  2. Before the 2008 revision, j could be used as well.
  3. Before the 2008 revision, É/é was used.

Text example

Below follows an example of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 1) in Uyghur:

More information Arabic alphabet (UEY):, Cyrillic alphabet (USY): ...

See also


References

  1. Shinjang Til-Yëziq Komitëti Tetqiqat Merkizi (2008). "Uyghur yëziqidiki herplerni Latin herpliri bilen ipadilesh layihisi" ئۇيغۇر يېزىقىدىكى ھەرپلەرنى لاتىن ھەرپلىرى بىلەن ئىپادىلەش لايىھىسى [A Blueprint for the Transliteration of Uyghur Script to Latin Script] (in Uyghur). Archived from the original on December 1, 2013.

Further reading

  • Duval, Jean Rahman; Janbaz, Waris Abdukerim (2006). An Introduction to Latin-Script Uyghur (PDF). 2006 Middle East & Central Asia Politics, Economics, and Society Conference. Sept 7 – 9, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-22.

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