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Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet

Uyghur-language alphabet used in post-Soviet states

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After the proclamation of the communist People's Republic of China in 1949, Russian linguists began helping the Chinese with codifying the various minority languages 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 the Sino-Soviet split.

Amid deteriorating relations with the Soviet Union, China dismissed the Cyrillic script and introduced the Uyghur New Script in 1959. The New Script entered widespread use in China beginning in 1965. In 1982, China officially switched to the Arabic script.

The letters in the Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet are, in order:

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