ISO 639-3 · uiguig
Eastern Karluk family
Uyghur
ئۇيغۇر
Uyghur is a language of the Eastern Karluk branch, spoken in China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and 4 more countries. Wikidata counts 10.4 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “Turkic language spoken by the Uyghur people”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
uig- ISO 639-1
ug- Glottocode
uigh1240- Family
- Eastern Karluk
- EGIDS
- 2 Provincial
- Centre point
- 42.50, 84.00
- Wikipedia
- 126 language editions
10.4 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
8countries
3scripts
1levels in the tree
2EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Uyghur · ئۇيغۇر |
|---|---|
| Also called | Uighur, Eastern Turkish, Uyghur language, ug, Uighur language |
| L1 speakers | 10,400,000 (2019) |
| All speakers | 10,389,840 (2010) |
| Written in | Arabic script, Cyrillic, Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 2 Provincial2
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Eastern Karluk to Uyghur
The branches above Uyghur, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
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where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in China
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