Uyghur Latin Yéziqi

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Uyghur Latin Yéziqi (ULY) is the recent attempt to make a script for 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.

[edit] 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. It unified the Uyghur Latin alphabet.

[edit] Public Reception

It had a heavy public relations (PR) presence on both the Internet and official XUAR 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.