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The Uighur alphabet (also: Uyghur alphabet) is the alphabet created by the Uighurs to read and write the Uighur language. It is based on the Arabic alphabet. Unlike the Arabic alphabet, however, Uighur has specific letters to write vowel sounds, rather than just diacritic marks. Writing vowels in Uighur is required, not optional.

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    MS Windows Uyghur keyboard layout. In this keyboard layout, vowels use the older alphabet from the Arabic script and not the newer plain letters of the Uyghur Ereb Yëziqi alphabet (composed of pairs of Arabic letters, starting with an alef with hamza that must be entered separately on this keyboard before the actual vowel). The keyboard layout is also based on the older Latin alphabet used for the Mixed Uyghur Yëngi Yëziq and does not allow entering all vowels correctly for the current Arabic script. It more closely matches the older Chatagai script, which is now deprecated for Uyghur and is considered suitable only for the Kona Yëziq, i.e. "old script".

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