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Locale Ug 001

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Use when working with the Uyghur locale (`ug-001`) — its endonym ئۇيغۇرچە, Arabic script, right-to-left (RTL) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.

Reference data for the Uyghur locale — endonym ئۇيغۇرچە, written in the Arabic script, right-to-left (RTL).

Identifiers

  • BCP 47 tag: ug-001
  • ISO 639-1: ug
  • ISO 639-3: uig
  • Script: Arab (Arabic)
  • Region: 001 (World)
  • Text direction: rtl — right-to-left (RTL)

Speakers (approximate)

  • L1 (native): 11,000,000
  • L2 (additional): 1,500,000
  • L1+L2 (total): 12,500,000

Set dir="rtl" for this locale (per Locale's text-direction guidance) rather than assuming left-to-right layout.

Regional variants

This is the base/macro locale for Uyghur. Region-specific variants in this dataset:

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).

  • one — n = 1 (e.g. 1)
  • other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Uyghur is a Turkic language written mainly in an Arabic-based alphabet (the Uyghur Arabic alphabet), from right to left, in Xinjiang (China). A Latin script and a Cyrillic script also exist. Confirm the script before translating. See Locale Ug Cn.

Translate ideas, not words.

  • Uyghur is agglutinative with vowel harmony and subject-object-verb order. Do not translate through Chinese; restructure English sentences.
  • Use Uyghur terminology from the language institutions where it exists, not raw Chinese loanwords.
  • Re-express idioms by meaning.

Grammar and register.

  • Vowel harmony; six cases; no gender; no plural after numerals.
  • سىز is the polite form for UI and public text; سەن is informal.

Orthography and typography.

  • Uyghur writes all vowels as letters (unlike Arabic or Persian): ئا ئە ئې ئى ئو ئۇ ئۆ ئۈ. Initial vowels carry the hamza carrier ئ. Use the exact Unicode letters; never replace them with Arabic or Persian look-alikes.
  • Right-to-left; use the Arabic comma ،, semicolon ؛, and question mark ؟; digits Western or Arabic-Indic per convention.
  • Quotation marks «…»; currency yuan.

Common pitfalls

  • Using Persian or Arabic look-alike letters.
  • Breaking right-to-left display.
  • Using the wrong script variant.

Learn more

  • Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
  • Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
  • Xinjiang University and the Uyghur language standards
  • Unicode Standard, Arabic block (Uyghur letters)

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