Uyghur Arabic alphabet

The table below lists all 32 letters of the current official Uyghur alphabet used in Xinjiang in alphabetical order, along with their IPA transcriptions. Note: also represents but it is usually ignored at the beginning of words. It still reads in the middle, such as hour. In printed texts, the letter may also take the shape of with a single dot, that is . This letter was used in the Uyghur keyboard layout for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, but Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 changed the mapping to .. In the digital sphere, is prevalent, and some fonts specialized for Uyghur map the shape of to . == Spelling of suffixes ==

Uyghur spelling borrowed heavily from Chagatai influences. The spelling of the suffixes from Uyghur also matched Chagatai spellings which were kept largely static. Below is an incomplete list of suffixed spellings and their vowel harmony alternatives. Frequently, some Chagatai suffixes were not written joined (separated by a zero width non-joiner, in Unicode terms) while in modern Uyghur the root+suffix would be joined. == Historical spellings ==

==Old and modern spelling comparisons==