The similarity between them is 90-95% which is basically one language with 2 different regional accents. They're often called twin languages - Uzbek has a more Persian intonation and Uyghur has more Kazakh-Kyrgyz sound to it but they are practically one language.

The Turks only separated very recently comparing to say, the Indo-Europeans, Persians, and Chinese!

I think it is the same thing among Portuguese and Romanian speakers.

@@JH-uk3ze Persians are Indo-European.

It just amazes me that I myself start to watch Muhtesem Yuzyil in native Turkish and understand it 90% although I never went to turkish school for a single day, and Turkey and East Turkistan are 1000s of miles away. It disgusts me that China says Uyghurs are not Turkic.

@@gulbahar6310 are you okay there gülbahar

Ro Se yaraysiz

The present Uyghurs were formed by admixture between Tocharians from the west and Orkhon Uyghurs (Wugusi-Huihu, according to present Chinese pronunciation) from the east in the 8th century AD. The Uyghur Empire was originally located in Mongolia and conquered the Tocharian tribes in Xinjiang. Tocharians such as Kroran have been shown by archaeological findings to appear phenotypically similar to northern and central Europeans, whereas the Orkhon Uyghur people were clearly Mongoloid. The two groups of people subsequently mixed in Xinjiang to become one population, the present Uyghurs. Yunusbayev et al. (2015) suggest a clearly mongoloid origin for the proto-Turkic people. During and after the migration into Central-Asia, these tribes mixed partially with Indo-European nomads. Yunusbayev et al. note that "genetic studies have not identified a clear-cut unifying genetic signal for the Turkic peoples, which lends support for language replacement rather than demic diffusion as the model for the Turkic language’s expansion." Yunusbayev et al. found that "most of the Turkic peoples studied genetically resemble their geographic neighbors," which agrees with the elite dominance model of language expansion. Yet, western Turkic people share "an excess of long chromosomal tracts" which are identical with Turkic people from "present-day South Siberia and Mongolia (SSM), an area where historians center a series of early Turkic and non-Turkic steppe polities," lending support to "a previously hypothesized area of Mongolia and southern Siberia. According to Robbeets, the proto-Turkic people descend from the proto-Transeurasian language community, which lived the West Liao River Basin (modern Manchuria) around 6000 BCE and may be identified with the Xinglongwa culture. They lived as agriculturalists, and later adopted a nomadic lifestyle and started a migration to the west.

Uyghur and Turkish are both Turkic languages. The Turks are spread out everywhere, from Western Mongolia, Central Asia, Xinjiang to parts of Russia, Crimea, Azerbaijan and Turkey. Well I know it’s bigger than that cos the Turkic languages are also found in Siberia up to Northern Cyprus and parts of the Balkans as well as parts of Persia and Iraq and Syria.

Uyghurs didn't travel much from Turkic homeland. Although they mixed with local Sogdians, they actually descend from real Turks.

@Adab Doost, it's not "linguistic fact." Like the commenter above you said, it's been widely discredited by linguists.

unfortunately a lot of turkish people are indoctrinated into believing that the altaic hypothesis is very much the reality

@@ballscrusher4 How is that in any way the case?

Not as a language family, but as far as I know, the idea of an "Altaic" sprachbund is pretty uncontroversial.

Calling and using Altaic term for Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic languages is not mistake but calling it a language family is wrong. Altaic is not language family but a sprachbund for sure. So it makes sense like calling any language an Asian language, a European language etc while there is not asian or european language family.

Well Muslim Turks invaded them and changed their accent and culture. The original Uyghurs when they were back in Mongolia used to speak more close to West Yugur language.

During the 17, 18, and 19th centuries 134 bans were imposed on the use of Ukrainian, yet it still survives today as the second most widely spoken Slavic language after Russian. Hopefully Uyghur would survive any ban against the use of it, at least.

How can you use this KZfaq in China because KZfaq is banned in China.

You are lying Uyghur is spoken by millions of people in Xinjiang

​@@lnaru Obviously. What he means in the government is suppressing it. Over the course of years each generation will begin speaking it less and eventually it will die out. Killing a language is a long task, and the Chinese government is well on its way to do it.

Biz bir millatmiz azizim Uyghurstandan salamlar bolsun Men Özbek xalqini yaxshi koraman ❤

Uyghur biz Türklerin ata yurdudur. Müstakildi yine müstakil olacak.

Sherqiy Türkistan

@ In shaa Allah AMIIIIIIN

No 🇨🇳

They come from the same language branch, so they are very similar! 😊

Both of them are speaking Uyghurche

We didn't initially have Gulnisa's and Elise's names, but we have added them now :) Thanks for checking!

Uh, Wugusi is the transliteration of Oghuz, not Orkhon. Orkhon is pronounced "E'erhun" or "Aluhun".

tocharian tribes in xinjang? the toponym Xinjang means -new territory in chinese and was given in 18th centry by chinese

I noticed that too haha

It's actually a traditional classification that has been largely debunked by now and new studies suggested they might be a Sprachbund instead of a language famiy

Yes, virtually no mainstream academic scholars use the term Altaic anymore. The former Altaic branches seem to be independente language families that, if they have a common origin, that was just so long ago that no connection can be scientifically proven. They just became closer to each other in the last millennium, instead of diverging more and more as you'd expected from languages with the same origin, so they probably just interacted a lot with each other.

Many Uyghurs could easily pass for Afghans or people from Iran . The Indo-European speaking Tocharians of ancient times lived in this area , and many Uyghurs are descended from them .

The guy with the hat is a Uyghur, lady in the middle is American and the other lady with glasses on is Uzbek.

Uyghur and Turks are the same origin.

The present Uyghurs were formed by admixture between Tocharians from the west and Orkhon Uyghurs (Wugusi-Huihu, according to present Chinese pronunciation) from the east in the 8th century AD. The Uyghur Empire was originally located in Mongolia and conquered the Tocharian tribes in Xinjiang. Tocharians such as Kroran have been shown by archaeological findings to appear phenotypically similar to northern and central Europeans, whereas the Orkhon Uyghur people were clearly Mongoloid. The two groups of people subsequently mixed in Xinjiang to become one population, the present Uyghurs. Yunusbayev et al. (2015) suggest a clearly mongoloid origin for the proto-Turkic people. During and after the migration into Central-Asia, these tribes mixed partially with Indo-European nomads. Yunusbayev et al. note that "genetic studies have not identified a clear-cut unifying genetic signal for the Turkic peoples, which lends support for language replacement rather than demic diffusion as the model for the Turkic language’s expansion." Yunusbayev et al. found that "most of the Turkic peoples studied genetically resemble their geographic neighbors," which agrees with the elite dominance model of language expansion. Yet, western Turkic people share "an excess of long chromosomal tracts" which are identical with Turkic people from "present-day South Siberia and Mongolia (SSM), an area where historians center a series of early Turkic and non-Turkic steppe polities," lending support to "a previously hypothesized area of Mongolia and southern Siberia. According to Robbeets, the proto-Turkic people descend from the proto-Transeurasian language community, which lived the West Liao River Basin (modern Manchuria) around 6000 BCE and may be identified with the Xinglongwa culture. They lived as agriculturalists, and later adopted a nomadic lifestyle and started a migration to the west.

The Uighur language is part of the Turkic group of Altaic languages, and the Uighurs are among the oldest Turkic-speaking peoples of Central Asia. They are mentioned in Chinese records from the 3rd century ce. They first rose to prominence in the 8th century, when they established a kingdom along the Orhon River in what is now north-central Mongolia. In 840 this state was overrun by the Kyrgyz, however, and the Uighurs migrated southwestward to the area around the Tien (Tian) Shan (“Celestial Mountains”). There the Uighurs formed another independent kingdom in the Turfan Depression region, but this was overthrown by the expanding Mongols in the 13th century. Despite an official ideology that recognized them as equal citizens of the communist state, Uighurs have always had an uncomfortable relationship with the authorities in Beijing. In 1933, amid the turbulence of China's civil wars, Uighur leaders in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar declared a short-lived independent Republic of East Turkestan. But Xinjiang was wholly subsumed into the new state forged by China's victorious Communists after 1949, with Beijing steadily tightening its grip on the oil rich territory. Its official designation as an "autonomous region" belies rigid controls from the central government over Xinjiang, and a policy of settling hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese there that has left the Uighurs comprising a little less than half of the region's roughly 20 million people. Turkistan and Turkiye have the same descendants.

Without China your "east turkestan" will be another Afghanistan.

@@samluo2056 :-), go eat some bats commie

@@sultan200020002000 bats are disgusting, we’d prefer some fresh little commiephobians. They surely taste much better :P

Such as?

Just took a little Russian in college; a couple of words had a familiar ring

Unlike some people, Uyghurs actually descend from real Turks.