Language
Uyghur letters, sounds and greetings, and where to start learning.
1 / What is Uyghur?
A Turkic language written in Arabic-based letters.
Uyghur is a Turkic language spoken mainly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, and in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and elsewhere. Its 32 letters are based on the Arabic script, and every vowel is written.
Read the introduction2 / Letters
Letters: shapes and sounds.
Choose a letter to see its isolated, initial, medial and final forms and hear it.
ئاa/a/
When a word begins with a vowel, the Hamza (ئ) is always placed before it as a base, forming 'ئا'. It does not connect to the letter on its left.
3 / Greetings
First greetings.
The audio is synthetic.
yaxshimusizHello / Good morning / Good eveningSee in dictionary
rehmetThank youSee in dictionary
xoshGoodbyeSee in dictionary
Xeyrlik kech.Good evening.See in dictionary
4 / Where to start
Letters → grammar → phrases.
5 / Tools
Language tools
Script converterType or paste Uyghur in Arabic, Latin (ULY) or Cyrillic script to see it in the other scripts and a katakana reading as you type.Machine translationTranslates a short text between Japanese or English and Uyghur with machine translation.DownloadsFree Windows programs for writing Uyghur and for reading text in images.
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Look words up in the dictionary.
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