Uyghur Language

Uyghur
ئۇيغۇرچە  /  ئۇيغۇر تىلى
Uyghur written in Perso-Arabic script
Pronunciation	[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Native to	Xinjiang, China
Ethnicity	Uyghur
Native speakers	25 million (2016)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Karluk Uyghur
Early forms	Karakhanid Chagatai Eastern Turki Uyghur
Writing system	Arabic (Uyghur alphabet) Latin script Cyrillic script
Official status
Official language in	China Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Regulated by	Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ug
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	uigh1240
Geographical extent of Uyghur in China
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 China

The Uyghur or Uighur (/ˈwiːɡər/)language (Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر تىلى, Уйғур тили, Uyghur tili, Uyƣur tili or ئۇيغۇرچە, Уйғурчә, Uygurche, Uyƣurqə), formerly known as Eastern Turki, is a Turkic language with 10 to 25 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur-speakers are located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and various other countries have Uyghur-speaking expatriate communities. Uyghur is an official language of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and is widely used in both social and official spheres, as well as in print, radio, and television, and is used as a lingua franca by other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.