East Turkistan Information Center
Şerqiy Türkistan Informatsiyon Merkizi

 

Uyghur-Latin alfabet
used by ETIC in its Uyghur language web pages

East Turkistan Information Center uses ISO-8859-9 (Latin 5) character set for its Uyghur language pages. The following Uyghur-Latin alphabet is adopted by the center:

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If you use ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) character set, you will see all the letters above except the Turkish letters 'Sh' and 'yumshak G' which will be represented by the Icelandic letters 'Eth' - Þ ( þ ) and 'Thorn' - Ð ( ð ), respectively. Then,

 

Capital Uyghur 'Sh'    Þ 
Small Uyghur 'Sh'    þ
Capital Uyghur 'Gh'    Ð
Small Uyghur 'gh'    ð

 

that is,

 

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We note that the so-called 'Yeñi Yesiq' in the Uyghur Autonomous Region, which is based on Pingyin, is different from the alphabet presented in the table above.

To read web pages with the text typed by ISO-8859-9 characters, you should have ISO-8859-9 fonts installed on your computer. To obtain these fonts, visit a web cite TURKCE Latin 5 ( Windows, Mac Turkisk Temel ASCII of the Turkish newspaper " Sabah "