language: uig

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has URI	http://lexvo.org/id/term/language/uig
has gloss	eng: Uyghur, formerly known as Eastern Turki, is a Turkic language spoken primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a Central Asian region administered by China, mainly by the Uyghur people. It is also spoken by some 300,000 people in Kazakhstan as of 1993, some 90,000 in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as of 1998, 3,000 in Afghanistan and 1,000 in Mongolia, both as of 1982. Today the Uyghur language is also used as a lingua franca among non-Uyghurs, such as the Xibes, Wakhis, Pamiris and Daurs, and even some Russians. A number of ethnic minorities in China even use Uyghur as a first language, these include the Tatars, Uzbeks and Kyrgyz.
lexicalization	eng: Uighur
lexicalization	eng: Uigur
lexicalization	eng: Uygur
subclass of	language/trk