Chaghatay 2.0

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This Web site hosts information about late Chaghatay (a variety of Middle Turkic spoken in Central Asia) and its descendants, especially those varieties spoken east of the Pamirs: early modern Uyghur (Turki) and modern Uyghur. The information here stems largely from projects directed by Prof. Arienne M. Dwyer of the University of Kansas and C.M. Sperberg-McQueen of Black Mesa Technologies, including:

The projects Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (ATMO-1) and Analyzing Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (ATMO-2), funded in large part by the Henry Luce Foundation.

These two interlinked projects support
1. the scanning of manuscripts from the Jarring Collection of Central Asian manuscripts held by the Lund University Library in Lund, Sweden,
2. the transcription of selected manuscripts,
3. the linguistic annotation of selected transcripts,
4. the linguistic and historical analysis of these manuscripts, and
5. the Web publication of all work done under the project.
The Uyghur Light Verbs project, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation (BCS-1053152).

This project has ended. Several kinds of information are available:
- a demonstration corpus of Uyghur (and Uzbek) texts
- linguistic information about Uyghur, a Southeastern Turkic language spoken by about 9 million people primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of western China (ISO 639 code: uig)
- ... and for those interested in peeking under the hood, some technical information about our XML formats, query system, and work flow