Ⱪona Yeziⱪ

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Ⱪona Yeziⱪ ("old script") is the Arabic alphabet, as used for writing the Uyghur language.

It has two forms:

  • the Chagatai script, a modified Perso-Arabic script used for writing Chagatai and Uyghur from the Middle Ages until 1969;
  • a modification of this, known as Uyghur Ereb Yéziqi, used from the mid-1980s till the present day.