Chagatai, also known as Turki, Eastern Turkic, or Chagatai Turkic, was a Turkic language that was once widely spoken across Central Asia. It remained the shared literary language in the region until t
Lizheng Gate at the Chengde Mountain Resort. The second column from the left is the Chagatai language written in Perso-Arabic Nastaliq script which reads Rawshan Otturādaqi Darwāza.
Late 15th century Chagatai Turkic text in Nastaliq script
A 1553 manuscript copy of Ali-Shir Nava'i’s Chagatai verse translation of the story Shaykh Sanan and the Christian Maiden, which forms part of his mathnawi Lisan al-Tayr, a Turkic adaptation of Mantiq al-Tayr by Attar of Nishapur.
Uyghur, formerly known as Turki or Eastern Turki, is a Turkic language of the Karluk branch, with 8 to 13 million native speakers. It is spoken primarily by the Uyghur people, most of whom live in wha
Chagatai language
…Kyrgyzstan), Eastern Turkestan, Crimea, the Volga-Ural region (such as Tatarstan and Bashkortostan), etc. Chagatai is the direct ancestor of the Uzbek and Uyghur languages. Kazakh and Turkmen, which are not within the Karluk branch but are in the Kipchak and Oghuz branches of the Turkic languages respectively…
A signboard in front of the Bingtuan Military Museum of Xinjiang written in Uyghur (using Arabic script) and Standard Chinese
A sign in Ghulja, Xinjiang, written in Uyghur (using Arabic script) and Chinese (both Hanzi and Pinyin)
Internet café (on the left) and barbershop (on the right) in Khotan oasis city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Address written in Uyghur with the Arabic script.