Uyghur Yëngi Yëziqi or Yengi Yeziⱪ (lit. new script; ; ; sometimes falsely rendered as Yengi Yeziķ or Yengi Yezik̡), was a Pinyin

Pinyin

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-Cyrillic-Latin mixed alphabet

Alphabet

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 used for writing the Uyghur language

Uyghur language

Uyghur , formerly known as Eastern Turk, is a Turkic language with 8 to 11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur-speakers are located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and various other...

 during 1965~1982, primarily by Uyghurs

Uyghur people

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 living in China

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, although the use of Uyghur Ereb Yëziqi

Uyghur Ereb Yéziqi

Uyghur Arabic script is an Arabic alphabet used for writing the Uyghur language, primarily by Uyghurs living in China. It is one of several Uyghur alphabets....

 is much more widespread.

It was devised around 1959 and came to replace the Cyrillic

Cyrillic alphabet

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-derived alphabet Uyghur Siril Yëziqi

Uyghur Siril Yéziqi

The Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet is a Cyrillic-derived alphabet used for writing the Uyghur language, primarily by Uyghurs living in Kazakhstan and former CIS countries....

 which had been used in China after the proclamation of the People's Republic of China

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 in 1949. It is still an official alphabet in China, but after the reintroduction of an Arabic

Arabic alphabet

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-derived alphabet, Uyghur Ereb Yëziqi, in 1982, there has been a huge decline in the use, and the majority of Uyghurs today use Uyghur Ereb Yëziqi. For romanized

Romanization

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 Uyghur, the Latin script Uyghur Latin Yëziqi

Uyghur Latin Yéziqi

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has become more common than Uyghur Pinyin Yëziqi.

The letters in the UYY (Uyghur New Script) are, in order:

Capital Letter	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z	Ƣ	Ⱨ	Ⱪ	Ə	Ɵ	Ü	Ⱬ	NG	ZH	CH	SH
Small Letter	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z	ƣ	ⱨ	ⱪ	ə	ɵ	ü	ⱬ	ng	zh	ch	sh
IPA	ɑ,a	b	s	d	e	f,ɸ	g	χ,x	i,ɨ	ʤ	k	l	m	n	o,ɔ	p	ʧ	r,ɾ	s	t	u,ʊ	w,v	w,v	ʃ	j	z	ʁ,ɣ	h,ɦ	q	ɛ,æ	ø	y,ʏ	ʒ	ŋ	ʤ	ʧ	ʃ