ئۇيغۇرچە
Lingo7 lets you read books with a translation under every sentence in 49 languages. Uyghur is not one of them yet. Ask for it below, and see what adding it takes and what reading Uyghur involves.
Lingo7 does not read Uyghur yet: the app has no Uyghur dictionary, books or voice for audio, and its reader is not yet mirrored for right-to-left text. You can vote for Uyghur here. Leave your email to vote; we add the most requested languages first and write to you once, when Uyghur is ready.
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The demo below is the live reader with a German book. Uyghur would work the same way once it is added, except for audio until a voice exists.
Spoken in: Xinjiang (China); communities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
In China, Uyghur is written right to left in the Uyghur Arabic alphabet, the official script since the early 1980s, when it replaced a Latin-based New Script. It has 32 letters and, unlike Arabic and Persian, writes every vowel with a letter, so a reader never has to guess the vowels. A word that begins with a vowel starts with the carrier ئ, as in ئۇيغۇر (Uyghur).
Uyghurs in Kazakhstan and other former Soviet states write in a Cyrillic alphabet created around 1937. A Latin transcription, Uyghur Latin Yéziqi (ULY), finalized at Xinjiang University in 2001, was designed as an auxiliary script for computing and is used online. A learner can therefore meet the same language in three scripts, and dictionaries and learning material may use any of them.
Uyghur is a Turkic language of the Karluk branch, the same branch as Uzbek. Like other Turkic languages it builds words by adding suffixes to a root, so one written word can hold what English says in several, and it has no grammatical gender. Its vocabulary shows a strong Persian influence, with numerous Persian loanwords.
Our free tools cover the 49 languages in the app.
There is no date yet. We add the most requested languages first, and Uyghur needs the work described on this page. Leave your email in the form and we will write to you once, when Uyghur is ready.
Not yet. Lingo7 has no Uyghur dictionary, audio or shelf of books, so a Uyghur book would not get the sentence-by-sentence translation and word lookups the app is built on. The 49 languages it does read are listed on the home page.
One vote per email address per language. The count on this page shows a number once at least 10 people have asked, and refreshes within a minute of a new vote. Your email is stored only to tell you when Uyghur launches, and deleted whenever you ask at support@lingoseven.com.
Yes. Unlike Arabic, Persian and Urdu, the Uyghur Arabic alphabet has a letter for every vowel, eight vowel letters in all, so the vowels never have to be guessed. A word that starts with a vowel begins with the carrier ئ.
The Arabic-based alphabet if you want to read texts from Xinjiang, where it is the official script, and Cyrillic for texts from Kazakhstan and other former Soviet states. The Latin alphabet (ULY) was designed for computing and is used mainly for typing and online.
Yes. Both belong to the Karluk branch of the Turkic languages and share a literary ancestor, Chagatai. Uzbek is officially written in Latin letters, so a reader of one still has to learn a new script to read the other.