Uyghur

Turkic11 million speakersArabic

RegionXinjiang (China)

FamilyTurkic

Speakers11 million speakers

ScriptArabic

TypeAbjad

About Uyghur

The language of the Uyghur people of far western China. Old Uyghur was the Silk Road lingua franca for centuries. Today written in a modified Arabic script. Heavy Persian influence in vocabulary. The muqam suites are its musical crown.

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