This article covers the phonology of the Uyghur language. Uyghur, a Turkic language spoken primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region features both vowel harmony and some vowel reduction also plays a role.
Vowels[]
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UR | R | UR | R | |
| Close | i | y | (ɯ) | u |
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | (ɯ̽) | ʊ |
| Mid | e | ø | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ | |
| Open | æ | ɑ | ɒ | |
Consonants[]
| Labial | Dental | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||
| Stop | p | b | t | d | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | c | ɟ | k | ɡ | q | ʁ | ʔ | |
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ç | ʝ | x | ɣ | h | |||
| Trill | ʙ | r | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | l | j | ɰ | ||||||||||