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Uyghur New Script

Obsolete Latin alphabet for the Uyghur language

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It was devised around 1959 and was intended to replace the Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet, which had also been used in China after the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. It is still an official alphabet in China, but after the reintroduction of the Arabic alphabet in 1982, there has been a significant decline in its use and the majority of Uyghurs today use the Arabic script. For romanized Uyghur, the ISO/IEC 8859-1 compliant Uyghur Latin alphabet has become more common than the New Script. The letters in the Uyghur New Script are, in order:

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