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| Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet | |||||||
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 A table showing the Uyghur Cyrillic and Arabic scripts | |||||||
| Uyghur name | |||||||
| Uyghur | ئۇيغۇر كىرىل يېزىقى | ||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 西里尔维文 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 西里爾維文 | ||||||
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| Russian name | |||||||
| Russian | Уйгурский кириллический алфавит | ||||||
TheUyghur Cyrillic alphabet (Uyghur:Уйғур Кирил Йезиқи,Arabic alphabet:ئۇيغۇر يېڭى يېزىقى) is aCyrillic-derivedalphabet used for writing theUyghur language, primarily byUyghurs living incountries of the former Soviet Union. It is used to writeStandard Soviet Uyghur.[1]It was created around 1937 by theGovernment of the Soviet Union, which wanted an alternative to theLatin-derived alphabet it had devised some eleven years earlier, in 1926. TheSoviets dropped their Latin script for Uyghur because they feared its local use would encourage Soviet Uyghurs to seek closer ties withTurkey, which hadswitched to a Latin-based alphabet in 1927–1928.[1]
After theproclamation of the communist People's Republic of China in 1949,Russianlinguists began helping theChinese with codifying the various minoritylanguages of China and promoting Cyrillic-derived alphabets. The Uyghurs of China thus also came to use the Cyrillic script for a period of time, until theSino-Soviet split.[1]
Amid deterioratingrelations with theSoviet Union,China dismissed the Cyrillic script and introduced theUyghur New Script in 1959. The New Script entered widespread use in China beginning in 1965.[1] In 1982, China officially switched to theArabic script.[2]
The letters in the Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet are, in order:
| Majuscule | Minuscule | IPA |
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| А | a | ɑ, a |
| Ә | ə | ɛ, æ |
| Б | б | b |
| В | в | w, v |
| Г | г | g |
| Ғ (F) | ғ (ꜰ) | ʁ, ɣ |
| Д | д | d |
| Е | е | e |
| Ё | ё | jo |
| Ж | ж | ʒ |
| Җ | җ | d͡ʒ |
| З | з | z |
| И | и | i, ɨ |
| Й | й | j |
| К | к | k |
| Қ | қ | q |
| Л | л | l |
| М | м | m |
| Н | н | n |
| Ң | ң | ŋ |
| О | о | o, ɔ |
| Ө | ө | ø |
| П | п | p |
| Р | р | r, ɾ |
| С | с | s |
| Т | т | t |
| У | у | u, ʊ |
| Ү | ү | y, ʏ |
| Ф | ф | f, ɸ |
| Х | х | χ, x |
| Һ | һ | h, ɦ |
| Ц | ц | t͡s |
| Ч | ч | t͡ʃ |
| Ш | ш | ʃ |
| Ю | ю | ju |
| Я | я | ja |
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