Uyghur Language Day matters, not just as celebration, but as defiance of the attempt to extinguish our civilization. The Chinese government wants to erase our culture by cutting out our tongue.

Published in America and Britain on September 13th, “The Backstreets” is the first Uyghur-language novel to be translated into English. Written as a stream of consciousness, ...

The first class I ever attended at Harvard was UYGHUR A: Elementary Uyghur. Walking into the language center as a wide-eyed freshman for my class at 9 a.m., ...

Uyghur language. International Criticism Follows Thailand’s Deportation of 40 Uyghurs to China. Mar 4, 2025. Thailand’s government deported 40 Uyghur asylum seekers to China in a secretive ...

Uyghur children are being institutionalized in boarding schools, where they are forced to use the Chinese language and adopt Han cultural practices. There is little data about these schools, but ...

He's a Uyghur linguist who specializes in Turkic languages. After years of studying abroad, he returned to his native China in 2011 and started teaching young Uyghur kids about their language and ...

Former World Uyghur Congress President Dolkun Isa denounced the “last-minute cancellation of linguist Abduweli Ayup’s presentation on the Uyghur language without any explanation,” calling it ...

Image: Children at the Uyghur language school in Adelaide. In the quiet, leafy Adelaide suburb of Gilles Plains, the carpark for the local mosque and adjacent school bustles with children eager to ...

Alongside traditional Uyghur fare — heavy on lamb and including stir-fries, kebabs and a traditional meat pie — Urumqi Ozgu Uyghur Restaurant sells Uyghur-language books, distributing some ...