Uyghur
From LING073
Uyghur is an official language of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region spoken by the Uyghur people living in the region or neighboring countries including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. There are around 8 to 11 million speaking according to 2021 estimates.
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Resources
Computational
- Uyghur Keyboard by Microsoft
- Uyghur Spell Checker by LibreOffice
- Latin to Uyghur Alphabet Converter by Temple University
- Uyghur-Multi-Script Converter by neouyghur
- Information of Machine Translation APIs for Uyghur by Machine Translate.
- - The article mentioned 6 different machine translation APIs that supports Uyghur. However, a lot of these requires a subscription/payment for their services.
- Microsoft Translator
- LingvaNex
- NeuralSpace
- ModernMT
- Baidu Translate (Questionable)
- Google Translate
- - The article also mentioned 2 different Quality Estimation APIs
All of these are either behind paywall, or requires further research on it to ensure that the translation is offered.
Dictionaries and Glossaries
Grammatical Descriptions
- Uyghur language grammatical lessons for kids
- Greetings from the Teklimakan: a handbook of Modern Uyghur (volume 1)
Scientific Works
- A Review of Morphological Analysis Methods on Uyghur Language
- Morphological disambiguation rules for Uyghur language
- Rule-Based Analysis of the Uyghur Nouns
- Eye movements guided by morphological structure: Evidence from the Uighur language
- Computational Comparison of the Uyghur and Turkish Grammar
- Issues in Uyghur backness harmony: Corpus, experimental, and computational studies
- Noisy Uyghur Text Normalization
Corpora
- Uygur.com, a website containing digital scans of books and texts written in Uyghur. Most of these are photocopied and might be hard to parse into a text file
- Genesis 1, a translation of Genesis into Uyghur
- Radio Free Asia, a news website with articles in Uyghur
- Quran, a pdf of the Quran in Uyghur, also photocopied so it may be hard to parse
