Uighur language

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Uighur language is a Turkic language spoken in Xinjiang (East Turkestan), China.

The language traditionally used the Arabic script since 10th century. The government introduced a Roman script in 1969, but the Arabic script was reintroduced in 1983.

See also: Uighur, Languages of China

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Uighur_language" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uighur_language, used under the GNU Free Documentation License