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There are so many errors in this article in the first few paragraphs that I have trouble believing any of it, even if the story itself is believable from what I
by intopieces 9y ago
There are so many errors in this article in the first few paragraphs that I have trouble believing any of it, even if the story itself is believable from what I know of Chinese religious oppression.
First, Xinjiang is in the west, not east. Second, Uyghurs in China do not speak Turkish. They speak Uighur, a Turkic language, but its orthography is Arabic and forced Chinese. It looks nothing like Turkish, which uses a modified Latin script.
Also there are about 10m Uyghurs as of 2010, not 8m.
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- ozim 9y agoThey mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Turkestan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Turkestan and article states : "Uighur Muslims are a Turkish-speaking minority of eight million in the northwestern Xinjiang region". For language you are correct but from my point of view it is nitpicking, same like 10m and 8m. Important parts are, they do not speak same language as Chinese and in country of China group in up to ten millions is still minority which can be oppressed by central government. For comparison Sweden or Portugal is around 10m people, which gives me nice point of refenece.
- smnrchrds 9y agoTurkish was written with an Arabic-based alphabet until 1920s. The move to Latin alphabet for Turkic languages is new, and not yet universal. For example, Azerbaijani, the closest Turkic language to Turkish (so much that Turkish and Azerbaijani are mutually comprehensible) is written in Latin alphabet in the Republic of Azerbaijan but in Arabic alphabet in Iran.
- intopieces 9y agoYep! Orthography is hugely political for Central Asian languages, so I am really disappointed that this article would make such a glaring mistake, among others. It does not seem very well researched.
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