Uyghur Script Converter

Uyghur is written in four main scripts: (1) Uyghur Arabic Script (UAS / UKIJ) — the official right-to-left script used in Xinjiang, China; (2) Uyghur Latin Script (ULS / ULY) — introduced in 2001 for digital and internet use; (3) Uyghur Cyrillic Script (UCS) — used by Uyghur communities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and other CIS countries; (4) Uyghur Yengi Script (UYS) — a reformed Latin alphabet used in some academic and diaspora contexts.

Paste your Uyghur Arabic (UKIJ) text into the input box, select "Arabic Script (ئۇيغۇرچە)" as the source and "Latin Script — ULY" as the target, then click Convert. The converter maps each Arabic character to its ULY equivalent following the official ULY standard, including special characters like ch, sh, gh, zh, and ng.

ULY (Uyghur Latin Yéziqi) and Yengi Script (Uyghur Yengi Yéziq) are both Latin-based alphabets for Uyghur but use different letter mappings. ULY uses digraphs like "ch", "sh", "gh", "zh", "ng" and the letter "j" for the sound /dʒ/. Yengi Script uses single letters with diacritics and special Unicode characters such as ⱬ, ⱪ, ⱨ, ø, and ə instead.

Yes — Uyghur belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic language family, making it most closely related to Uzbek. Turkish and Kazakh are more distant Turkic relatives. All Turkic languages share agglutinative grammar, vowel harmony, and many cognate vocabulary items, though they are not mutually intelligible.

Yes. The converter processes entire blocks of text and correctly handles word boundaries, vowel insertion rules for Arabic script (the ئ hamza carrier), punctuation, and digraphs. It is built on the open-source umsc (Uyghur Multi-Script Converter) algorithm.