Langenesis

Turkic family

Uyghur

c. 1500 CE – today Living

Uyghur (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Turkic language. Lineage: Proto-Turkic → Old Turkic → Chagatai → Uyghur.

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Speakers
10M (10,000,000)
ISO 639-3
uig
Glottocode
uigh1240

Karluk language of Xinjiang, China, closely related to Uzbek. Modern standard based on the Ili/Ürümqi dialects, written in Arabic script. Not the direct descendant of Old Uyghur.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Turkicc. 200 BCE – 500 CE
  2. Old Turkic550 CE – 900 CE
  3. Chagataic. 1300 CE – 1921 CE
  4. Uyghurc. 1500 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Chagatai.

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