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Uyghur proverbs
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The [[w:Uyghur|Uyghur]] are a [[w:Turkic languages|Turkic]]-speaking Muslim people living in China and Central Asia. Modern Uyghur is written using three writing systems: Arabic-based alphabet in China, Cyrillic-based alphabet in Central Asia and Latin-based alphabet in other countries.

The Uyghur culture and language has a long history and is closely related to that of other Central Asian peoples, such as Uzbek.

The Uyghur word for "proverb" is ماقال / maqal / мақал.

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Asmangha tükürseng, yüzüngge chüsher. / ئاسمانغا تۈكۈرسەڭ، يۈزۈڭگە چۈشەر  / Асманға түкүрсәң, йүзүңгә чүшәр.
* English translation: If you spit skywards, it’ll end up on your face. (About arrogance or disrespect)


Xéridarda köz bolsa, qassap achtin öler. / خېرىداردا كۆز بولسا، قاسساپ ئاچتىن ئۆلەر / Херидарда көз болса, қассап ачтин өләр.
* English translation: Had the customers eyes, the butchers would die from hunger. (No trade or business is comlpetely honest)


(contracted; show full)* Hamrayew, M.K. (1981), Uyghur maqal we temsilliri, Uyghur we Rus tillirida rusche parallelliri bilen. Moscow: Glavnaya redaktsiya vostochnoy literatury

* Kibirova, Sh.; Tsunvazo, Ju. (1961), Uygursko-russkiy slovar', Almaty: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk Kazaxskoy SSP


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