Learn Uyghur Through Topics You Actually Care About

LingoBear creates short Uyghur passages on topics you choose. Tap any word for an instant English translation and build your vocabulary as you read. Karluk Turkic language of Xinjiang, written in a modified Perso-Arabic script (Uyghur Ereb Yëziqi) and Latin/Cyrillic in diaspora, vowel harmony, ~10M speakers.

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Every word in your Uyghur reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help as you read the right-to-left Perso-Arabic script.

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Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Uyghur reading passage — useful when published material outside Xinjiang is limited.

What is Uyghur and where is it spoken?

Uyghur (ئۇيغۇر تىلى) is a Karluk Turkic language with around 10 million speakers, primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. It is most closely related to Uzbek among major Turkic languages. The dominant Xinjiang script is a modified Perso-Arabic alphabet, Uyghur Ereb Yëziqi; diaspora communities also use Latin (ULY) and Cyrillic (USY).

What grammar features does Uyghur have?

Uyghur is agglutinative, with SOV word order, no grammatical gender, and full vowel harmony — suffixes change shape to match the front/back and rounded/unrounded vowels of the root. Verbs encode tense, aspect, evidentiality and person, and chain together long forms (oqu-y-al-mi-d-i-m 'I was not able to read'). LingoBear lets you see these patterns in real text.