Uyghur Latin Yéziqi

Uyghur Latin Yéziqi (ULY) is an auxiliary alphabet for the Uyghur language based on the Latin alphabet. Uyghur is primarily written in a script based on the Arabic abjad and sometimes in a script based on the Cyrillic alphabet.

Construction

The ULY project was finalized at Xinjiang University, Ürümchi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), People's Republic of China) in 2001-July, at the fifth conference of a series held there for that purpose that started in 2000-November..

Purpose

The creators of ULY strongly emphasized that “the proposed alphabet should not replace [the Persian-Arab Uyghur alphabet] nor should its introduction represent a new reform of the writing system. It is to be used solely in computer-related fields as an ancillary writing system”.^[1]

Public Reception

It had a heavy public relations presence on both the Internet and official Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region media but despite official efforts to play down the sense of a massive reform, ULY has acquired that connotation and the public seems wary of it. The importance of having one-to-one correspondence between both Latin and Arabic is noteworthy.

Comparison of orthographies

The different orthographies are compared as the following table.

Text example

Here the example of Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 1) in Uyghur:

References

• An Introduction to LSU

Footnotes

1. ^ An Introduction to LSU, p. 5.

See also

• Uyghur Ereb Yéziqi
• Uyghur alphabet

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