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This article covers the phonology of the Uyghur language. Uyghur, a Turkic language spoken primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region features both vowel harmony and some vowel reduction also plays a role. ==Vowels== Uyghur vowels are by default short, but some phonologists have argued that long vowels also exist because of historical vowel assimilation (above) and through loanwords. Underlyingly long vowels would resist vowel reduction and devoicing, introduce non-final stress, and be analyzed as |Vj| or |Vr| before a few suffixes. However, the conditions in which they are actually pronounced as distinct from their short counterparts have not been fully researched. Official Uyghur orthographies do not mark vowel length, and also do not distinguish between (e.g., (unicode:بىلىم) 'knowledge') and back (e.g., (unicode:تىلىم) 'my language'); these two sounds are in complementary distribution, but phonological analyses claim that they play a role in vowel harmony and are separate phonemes. The high vowels , , and are devoiced in non-stressed positions when they occur between two voiceless consonants, or in word-initial position before a voiceless consonant: e.g. ''uka'' 'older brother', ''pütün'' 'entire', ''ikki'' . only occurs in words of non-Turkic origin and as the result of vowel raising. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Uyghur phonology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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