ياخشىمۇسىز!
say it: “yahkh-shee-moo-SEEZ”
Uyghur
in its own words: ئۇيغۇرچە
- Speakers
- 11 million (estimate)
- Family
- Turkic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- People's Republic of China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan
- Script
- Arabic, Cyrillic
- Official language
- People's Republic of China (regional)
Fun fact
Uyghur is a Turkic language written in a modified Arabic script which, unlike Arabic, consistently writes the vowels.