User:Pfctdayelise/Uyghur

Learn Uyghur!

Contents

The central discussion point for the whole book should be User talk:Pfctdayelise/Uyghur.

/Cover

interwiki, cats

/Introduction

Introduction to the Uyghur language. For an introduction to this book, per se, see the /About section.

• • /Introduction/Linguistic: In China, But Not Chinese (a survey of its linguistic features, cf. English), dialects
  • /Introduction/History: lang development, literature, maps
  • /Introduction/Culture: The Uyghur people, Xinjiang
  • /Introduction/Why: Why should you learn Uyghur? What is the motivation behind this wikitextbook?
  • /Introduction/Resources: books, uni courses, websites (see below)

/Basics

Emphasise the importance of making that quick association between the script and the sound. heaps of OGGs to listen to (not so many later). should master this section completely before going on to the next (remember how long you spent just learning the alphabet? gotta crawl before you can walk), but it should also serve as a "drop-in refresher" for later

• • /Basics/Sounds: the basic sounds of Uyghur, IPA (OGGs), how to produce them
    • /Basics/Sounds/Vowels
    • /Basics/Sounds/Consonants
  • /Basics/Scripts: Internet, fonts, Unicode? map between IPA, latin, arabic, (cyrillic?)
    • /Basics/Scripts/Arabic
      • how the hell do you parse Arabic script...?! tips for reading it
    • /Basics/Scripts/Cyrillic
    • /Basics/Scripts/Latin
  • /Basics/Practice: nonsense phrases, tongue twisters, reading things you don't understand just to practice the sounds, maybe numbers and place names
  • /Basics/Phrases: Stock phrases

/Lessons

Each lesson should have, as a minimum:

• • Introduction: In this lesson you will learn...
  • Text(s) (mostly dialogue, may also include speeches/newspaper articles later)
  • Vocabulary lists (from /Vocabulary)
  • Grammar notes (from /Grammar)
  • Exercises
  • Test - should relate directly back to the introduction

/Vocabulary

Primarily annotated lists.

• • /Vocabulary/Numbers
  • /Vocabulary/Places
  • /Vocabulary/Grammar or 'linguistic' terms (eg POS)
  • (topic lists)

/Grammar

• • huge number of affixes apparently. I suggest one per node/page. just spread everything out and make it all independent if possible, so people can dip in and out as they need.

/Beyond

• • /Beyond/Standards: testing? create our own?
  • /Beyond/Reuse: how to reuse this content (teach others! spread the word! translate into other wikibooks!)
  • /Beyond/Maintenance: what you can do to maintain your language skills
  • / ug.wp

/About

All "meta" kind of information about this book in particular should go in this section.

• • /About/Audience: what assumptions are we making?
  • /About/Authors: information about the contributors to this wikitextbook
  • /About/Guidelines: useful templates, useful things to know before you begin contributing - this book's "manual of style"

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Notes to self

• How To Build An Excellent Wikibook Teaching Any Language/Template index
• How To Build An Excellent Wikibook Teaching Any Language/Template lessons
• commons:User:pfctdayelise/Xinjiang

cf. Turkish (linguistically), Irish (layout)

zomg Arabic...

• w:Uyghur language
• w:zh:维吾尔语
• w:ug:يەڭی يەزیق

web resources:

• http://www.omniglot.com/writing/uyghur.htm (IPA!)
• Language learning - some tips

• Positive review of a Uyghur restaurant in Sydney
• Radio Free Asia news story - 'Turkey-based Publisher Keeps Uyghur Letters Alive'
• Uyghur IPA chart!!
• Uyghur IPA with sound files and examples!!
• http://www.uygurworld.com/userfiles/Uighur_Alphabetopt.jpg
• Few basic phrases
• RFA podcast links (in English)
• random phrases
• 5 short videos