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Preferred term

uigUighur  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Uyghur (Uyĝur), formerly known as Eastern Turk, is a Turkic language with 8 to 11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur-speakers are located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and various other countries have Uyghur-speaking expatriate communities. Uyghur is an official language of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and is widely used in both social and official spheres, as well as in print, radio, and television, and is used as a lingua franca by other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.

Entry terms

  • Uyghur
  • Uyghur language

ISO 639-1 code

  • ug

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • uig

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • uig

ISO 639-3 code

  • uig

Notation

  • uig

In other languages

  • ouïgour

    French

  • ouïghour
  • Ouïghour
  • Uigurisch

    German

  • Uigurische Sprache
  • uiguro

    Italian

  • Lingua uigura
  • uigurico
  • uigur

    Portuguese

  • Língua uigur
  • uighur
  • uyghur
  • uigur

    Spanish

  • Idioma uigur
  • Uyghur
  • uygur

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/uig

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