Uyghur Latin alphabet
Latin-based alphabet for the Uyghur language
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In 2023, the alphabet was agreed as the BGN/PCGN romanization system for Uyghur.
Construction
The Uyghur Latin alphabet was first introduced in the 1930s in the former Soviet Union and was briefly used in the Uyghur Autonomous Region during the 1960s to 1970s. The ULY project was finalized at Xinjiang University, Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), People's Republic of China in July 2001, at the fifth conference of a series held there for that purpose that started in November 2000. In January 2008, the ULY project was amended and identified by Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Working Committee of Minorities' Language and Writing.
The letters in the Uyghur Latin alphabet are, in order:
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Purpose
The creators of the Uyghur Latin alphabet strongly emphasized that “the proposed alphabet should not replace [the Persian-Arab Uyghur alphabet] nor should its introduction represent a new reform of the writing system. It is to be used solely in computer-related fields as an ancillary writing system.”
Public reception
The Uyghur Latin alphabet had a heavy public relations presence on both the Internet and official Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region media but despite official efforts to play down the sense of a massive reform, the Uyghur Latin alphabet has acquired that connotation and the public seems wary of it. The importance of having one-to-one correspondence between Latin and Arabic is noteworthy.
Comparison of orthographies
The different orthographies are compared in the following table.
Text example
Below follows an example of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 1) in Uyghur: