How is one supposed to pronounce Uighur? In News fromTartary Peter Fleming called them Turki, which is not only a lot easier to say but also (I think) tells us something about their language.languagehat says August 9, 2014 at 11:28 am WEE-gur, rhymes with Pete Seeger. And “Turki...
The proper way to pronounce the word "Uyghur" is "Wee-gur," and while the exact origin of the name is not concretely known, it is believed to have originated from Old Turkic. It can also be spelled "Uighur," "Uigur," and "Uygur." ...
For instance, we know that people write words in the way that they want to pronounce them, due to a simple letter-to-phoneme mapping. However, pronunciation may vary significantly due to accents or personal habits, leading to uncertainty in word forms. This has caused serious problems in ...