The Uyghur or Uighur language (/ ˈ w iː ɡ ʊər,-ɡ ər /; ئۇيغۇر تىلى, Уйғур тили, Uyghur tili, Uyƣur tili, IPA: [ujɣur tili] or ئۇيغۇرچە, Уйғурчә, Uyghurche, Uyƣurqə, IPA: [ujɣurˈtʃɛ], CTA: Uyğurçä; formerly known as Eastern Turki), is a Turkic language, written in a Uyghur Perso-Arabic script, with 8-11 million speakers, spoken primarily by ...

Uyghur cuisine (Uighur: ئۇيغۇر تائاملىرى, Uyghur Taamliri, Уйғур Таамлири; Chinese: 維吾爾菜; pinyin: Wéiwú'ěr Cài) is a cuisine of the Uyghur people, which is also consumed outside of Xinjiang.Signature ingredients include roasted mutton, kebabs, and rice. Because of the Muslim population, the food is predominantly halal.

Many historians trace the ancestry of modern Uyghur people to the Altaic pastoralists called Tiele, who lived in the valleys south of Lake Baikal and around the Yenisei River.The Tiele first appear in history in AD 357, under the Chinese ethnonym Gaoche, referring to the ox-drawn carts with distinctive high wheels used for yurt transportation. Tiele tribal territories had previously …

The following is a non-exhaustive list of standardized tests that assess a person's language proficiency of a foreign/secondary language. Various types of such exams exist per many languages—some are organized at an international level even through national authoritative organizations, while others simply for specific limited business or study orientation.

Turkmen (türkmençe, түркменче, تۆرکمنچه, [tʏɾkmøntʃø] or türkmen dili, түркмен дили, تۆرکمن ديلی, [tʏɾkmøn dɪlɪ]), sporadically referred to as "Turkmen Turkic" or "Turkmen Turkish", is a Turkic language spoken by the Turkmens of Central Asia, mainly of Turkmenistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.It has an estimated 5 million native speakers in ...

Salar is a Turkic language spoken by the Salar people, who mainly live in the provinces of Qinghai and Gansu in China; some also live in Ili, Xinjiang.It is a primary branch and an eastern outlier of the Oghuz branch of Turkic, the other Oghuz languages (Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen) being spoken mostly in Western and Central Asia.The Salar number about 105,000 people, …

This is a list of television networks and television channels that are broadcast in the Chinese language or offer at least some programming in Chinese. Mainland China. National networks. China Central ... Xinjiang Uyghur Comprehensive News Channel(Satellite Channel) Xinjiang Kazakh Comprehensive News Channel(Satellite Channel) Xinjiang ...

Kazakh or Qazaq (Latin: qazaqşa or qazaq tılı, Cyrillic: қазақша or қазақ тілі, Arabic Script: قازاقشا or قازاق تيلي, pronounced [qɑzɑqˈɕɑ], [qɑˈzɑq tɪˈlɪ]) is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia by Kazakhs.It is closely related to Nogai, Kyrgyz and Karakalpak.It is the official language of Kazakhstan and a significant ...

The East Turkestan independence movement (Uighur: شەرقىي تۈركىستان مۇستەقىللىق ھەرىكىتى; Chinese: 东突厥斯坦独立运动) is a fringe political movement that seeks the independence of East Turkestan, a large and sparsely-populated region in northwest China, as a homeland for the Uyghur people.The region is currently administered as a province-level ...

The Xinjiang conflict (Chinese: 新疆冲突), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), is an ongoing ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang also known as East Turkistan. It is centred around …