PUBL.- A Grammar of Modern Uyghur, Frederick De Jong
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A Grammar of Modern Uyghur
by
Frederick De Jong
(Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Modern Uyghur is a Turkic language which is predominantly spoken in
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of
China. It belongs to the Eastern or Chaghatay branch of the Turkic
languages.
Few texts exist which can be used for learning Modern Uyghur, which is
one of the least researched Turkic languages. This grammar is the
first English-based learning grammar for this language. It is
partially Latin-based while is also uses categorizations rooted in the
work of Chaghatay grammarians. It pays attention to dialect forms when
these forms are on the way to become part of the standard written
language. To facilitate its use, an index of the elements of grammar
covered, and an English-Uyghur vocabulary are included at the end of
this book.
By mastering its contents and by carefully going through the numerous
examples, the student should be able to read Uyghur publications with
the aid of a dictionary. At the same time, this grammar can be used
fruitfully as the basis for Uyghur courses at all levels. In
conjunction with the study of Frederick De Jong et al., Uyghur: A
Manual for Conversation (Utrecht: Houtsma 2005) and the accompanying
audio-CD, basic conversational skills can be acquired.
A Grammar of Modern Uyghur,
Frederick De Jong,
Utrecht 2007 (290 pages),
ISBN 978-90-801040-8-2,
is a Houtsma publication.
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