Turkic alphabet

Turkic alphabet

There exist several Turkic alphabets, i.e. alphabets used to write Turkic languages.

In ISO 15924 they are covered by Orkh, , and .

*the Old Turkic script (ISO 15924: Orkh, also known as Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script, Göktürk script, Old Turkic script, or Turkic runes) used for Old Turkic
*the Uniform Turkic Alphabet in use in the 1930s USSR. (Latn)
*any alphabet in use for writing Turkic languages,
**Azerbaijani alphabet (Arab, Cyrl, Latn)
**Kazakh alphabet (Arab, Cyrl, Latn(unoff.))
**Tatar alphabet
***İske imlâ alphabet (Arab)
***Yaña imlâ (Arab)
***Jaŋalif ("New alphabet", Latn)
***Zamanälif ("Modern alphabet", Latn)
**Turkish
***Ottoman Turkish alphabet (tur-Arab)
***Modern Turkish alphabet (tur-Latn)
**Turkmen alphabet (Arab, Cyrl, Latn)
**Uyghur alphabet
***Old Uyghur alphabet
***K̡ona Yezik̡ ("Old script" uig-Arab)
***Uyghur Pinyin Yéziqi
***Uyghur Ereb Yéziqi UEY (uig-Arab)
***Uyghur Latin Yéziqi ULY (uig-Latn)
***Uyghur Siril Yéziqi USY (uig-Cyrl)
**Uzbek alphabet


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