Uyghur language
E458717
The Uyghur language is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in China’s Xinjiang region, written in several scripts and serving as a major language of Central Asia.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uyghur | 14 |
| Uyghur language canonical | 13 |
| Standard Uyghur | 2 |
| Turki (Chagatai/Mughal court language) | 1 |
| Uighur | 1 |
| Uyghur tili | 1 |
| Uyghurche | 1 |
| ئۇيغۇر تىلى | 1 |
| ئۇيغۇرچە | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4633975 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Uyghur language Context triple: [Southeastern Turkic, hasMember, Uyghur language]
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A.
Uyghur language (historically)
The historical Uyghur language refers to earlier Turkic varieties used by the Uyghur people, which were written in scripts such as Perso-Arabic and played a key role in the literary and cultural history of Central Asia.
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B.
Kazakh language
The Kazakh language is a Turkic language spoken primarily in Kazakhstan and surrounding regions, written today mainly in Cyrillic but also in Latin and Arabic scripts.
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C.
Turkmen language
The Turkmen language is a Turkic language spoken primarily in Turkmenistan and surrounding regions, closely related to Turkish and other Oghuz languages.
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D.
Uyghur Arabic alphabet
The Uyghur Arabic alphabet is a Perso-Arabic–based script adapted to represent the sounds of the Uyghur language, historically used by Uyghur communities in Central Asia.
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E.
Uyghur Latin alphabet
The Uyghur Latin alphabet is a romanized writing system developed for the Uyghur language, used primarily in digital communication and linguistic transcription.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Uyghur language Target entity description: The Uyghur language is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in China’s Xinjiang region, written in several scripts and serving as a major language of Central Asia.
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A.
Uyghur language (historically)
The historical Uyghur language refers to earlier Turkic varieties used by the Uyghur people, which were written in scripts such as Perso-Arabic and played a key role in the literary and cultural history of Central Asia.
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B.
Kazakh language
The Kazakh language is a Turkic language spoken primarily in Kazakhstan and surrounding regions, written today mainly in Cyrillic but also in Latin and Arabic scripts.
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C.
Turkmen language
The Turkmen language is a Turkic language spoken primarily in Turkmenistan and surrounding regions, closely related to Turkish and other Oghuz languages.
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D.
Uyghur Arabic alphabet
The Uyghur Arabic alphabet is a Perso-Arabic–based script adapted to represent the sounds of the Uyghur language, historically used by Uyghur communities in Central Asia.
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E.
Uyghur Latin alphabet
The Uyghur Latin alphabet is a romanized writing system developed for the Uyghur language, used primarily in digital communication and linguistic transcription.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Turkic language
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agglutinative language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alsoSpokenIn |
Afghanistan
NERFINISHED
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Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyrgyzstan NERFINISHED ⓘ Pakistan NERFINISHED ⓘ Saudi Arabia NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkey NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ Uzbekistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea |
Central Asia
NERFINISHED
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East Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Uzbek language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directionOfWriting | right-to-left ⓘ |
| family | Turkic languages ⓘ |
| geneticRelation |
Kazakh language
NERFINISHED
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Kyrgyz language ⓘ Old Uyghur language ⓘ Uzbek language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLoanwordsFrom |
Arabic
NERFINISHED
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Chinese ⓘ Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVowelHarmony | true ⓘ |
| historicalScript |
Arabic script
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Cyrillic script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ Uyghur Ereb Yëziqi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-1 | ug ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-2 | uig ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | uig ⓘ |
| linguisticAncestor | Karluk languages ⓘ |
| majorDialect |
Central Uyghur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eastern Uyghur NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Uyghur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| morphologyType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakersEstimate | 10–15 million ⓘ |
| officialStatusRegion | Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryCountry | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEthnicGroup | Uyghur people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryRegion | Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedMinorityLanguageIn | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulatingBody | Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Language Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptStatusInChina |
Uyghur Arabic alphabet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
official script ⓘ |
| standardBasedOnDialect | Central Uyghur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardDialectCenter |
Kashgar
NERFINISHED
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Ürümqi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Karluk branch ⓘ |
| typology | subject–object–verb ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInMedia | Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Uyghur Arabic alphabet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ Uyghur Latin alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ Uyghur New Script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Uyghur language Description of subject: The Uyghur language is a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in China’s Xinjiang region, written in several scripts and serving as a major language of Central Asia.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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