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==Uyghur==
 
==Uyghur==
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* According to Wikipedia, similar to many Turkic languages it showcases agglutination
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* 8-13 million speakers from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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* Other languages: Chinese, Russian
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* Orthography: Uyghur Arabic Alphabet
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* ISO: uig
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* There are many sources of text in Uyghur and translations
  
 
==Kam/Dong (Southern? Northern?)==
 
==Kam/Dong (Southern? Northern?)==

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Uyghur

  • According to Wikipedia, similar to many Turkic languages it showcases agglutination
  • 8-13 million speakers from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  • Other languages: Chinese, Russian
  • Orthography: Uyghur Arabic Alphabet
  • ISO: uig
  • There are many sources of text in Uyghur and translations

Kam/Dong (Southern? Northern?)

  • Uses a Vietnamese based alphabet for native speakers and a Chinese based system for linguists, thus analytic. This language seems to use very little inflectional morphology, similar to Chinese.
  • Around 1.5 million speakers, around Guizhou Guangxi and Hunan China.
  • Other languages: Chinese
  • Orthography: Chinese-based for linguists and Vietnamese-based for native speakers.
  • ISO: kmc
  • There is a dictionary from Kam to Chinese on Amazon

Kabardian

  • Kabardian is agglutinative, it is labeled as such on Wikipedia.
  • Spoken mainly in the republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia in Russia. Also in parts of Turkey, Jordan, and Syria
  • Speakers: 1.6 milllion
  • ISO: kbd
  • Orthography: Cyrllic, sometimes Latin
  • The Bible can be found in Kabardian [1].