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Uyghur Signage Gets a Facelift in Urumqi After Riots

Posted by Porfiriy on May 22, 2010

In Xinjiang, there’s a common saying among Uyghurs that “Chinese characters are the eyes, and Uyghur characters are just the eyebrows.” If I remember the Uyghur correctly–don’t quote me here–I believe it’s something along the [...]

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More Verbal Mayhem Brought to You by the Uyghur Language

Posted by Porfiriy on April 17, 2010

A few days ago I introduced the intricacies of the Mood Category of Uyghur grammar and how the grammatical fixation on how information was obtained lead to some really mystifying sentence structures. Today, drawing from [...]

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Citation Needed: The Delightful Inscrutability of the Mood Category in Uyghur Grammar

Posted by Porfiriy on April 13, 2010

The bear that broke my arm was this big! – Naw, dude, you’re totally shittin’ me! There are people with linguistic training that are far more qualified than I am to write about Uyghur grammar, [...]

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IETab for Reading Uyghur in Firefox

Posted by Porfiriy on February 17, 2009

Firefox is delightful. I use it, and you should too. However, for the small demographic of Uyghur-reading Firefox readers, there’s the problem that on many pages the Uyghur script doesn’t render correctly. It’s a bummer, [...]

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Survival Uyghur – Lesson Nine: Go and Come Back

Posted by Tewpiq on December 04, 2008

Survival Uyghur From The New Dominion Lesson Nine: Go and Come Back Introduction Salam! and welcome to “Survival Uyghur”, The New Dominion’s series on speaking practical Uyghur. Last time, we began to look at the [...]

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Survival Uyghur – Lesson Eight: Does this bus go to Nanmen?

Posted by Tewpiq on November 29, 2008

Survival Uyghur From The New Dominion Lesson Eight: Does this bus go to Nanmen? Introduction Salam! and welcome to “Survival Uyghur”, The New Dominion’s series on speaking practical Uyghur. Last time, we asked our friends [...]

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Survival Uyghur – Lesson Seven: Where are you going?

Posted by Tewpiq on November 26, 2008

Survival Uyghur From The New Dominion Lesson Seven: Where are you going? Introduction Salam! and welcome to “Survival Uyghur”, The New Dominion’s series on speaking practical Uyghur. Quite some time ago, we formed questions and [...]

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Learning Uyghur Blurb: Nuclear Weapons

Posted by Porfiriy on November 22, 2008

With Opkehessip busy with some real life activities, Survival Uyghur is on hold and I’m left to inject to the site with some occasional Uyghur language goodness. Sadly, without the pedagogical and linguistic training that [...]

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Survival Uyghur – Returns Next Week!

Posted by Tewpiq on April 19, 2008 Survival Uyghur

Survival Uyghur, our series on speaking practical Uyghur, will return next Wednesday, as per usual! It was delayed this week by two days of really beautiful weather, two days of horrifyingly awful weather, and in [...]

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Survival Uyghur: Lesson Six – Could I have a napkin?

Posted by Tewpiq on April 09, 2008 Survival Uyghur

Survival Uyghur From The New Dominion Lesson Six: Could I have a napkin? Introduction Salam! and welcome to “Survival Uyghur”, The New Dominion’s series on speaking practical Uyghur. Last week, we learned to talk about [...]

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Survival Uyghur: Lesson Five – Strength in Numbers

Posted by Tewpiq on April 03, 2008 Survival Uyghur

Survival Uyghur From The New Dominion Lesson Five: Strength in Numbers Introduction Salam! and welcome to “Survival Uyghur”, The New Dominion’s series on speaking practical Uyghur. Last week, we asked if something was (bar) or [...]

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Survival Uyghur: Lesson Four – To be, or not to be

Posted by Tewpiq on March 26, 2008 Survival Uyghur

Survival Uyghur From The New Dominion Lesson Four: To be, or not to be Introduction Salam! and welcome to “Survival Uyghur”, The New Dominion’s series on speaking practical Uyghur. Last week, we worked on purchasing [...]

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