UyghurLA
Uyghur Awareness
Flourishing of a rich, humanistic and diverse culture
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The UyghurLA is based in Los Angeles, CA and is a tax-exempt, non-profit membership organization (under process) under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Tax Code.
The UyghurLA works to promote the preservation and flourishing of a rich, humanistic and diverse Uyghur culture, and to support the right of the Uyghur people to use peaceful, democratic means to determine their own political future. The UyghurLA trying to promoting improved human rights conditions for Uyghurs and other indigenous groups in East Turkistan (also known as China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), on the premise that the assurance of basic human rights will facilitate the realization of the community's democratic aspirations.
Culture
Who are Uyghurs?
The Uyghurs, aka Uighurs, are a Turkic people who live in Central and East Asia. As of 2019, Uyghurs live primarily in the East Turkistan (aka Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China), where they are one of China's fifty-five officially recognized ethnic minorities. Uyghurs primarily practice Islam
The World Uyghur Congress estimates the Uyghur population outside of China at 1.0–1.6 million. Significant diasporic communities of Uyghurs exist in the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan and in Turkey.[28] Smaller communities live in Afghanistan, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Canada, and the United States.
An estimated 80% of Uyghurs live in the south-western portion of the region, the Tarim Basin. Outside XUAR, the largest community of Uyghurs in China is in Taoyuan County, in north-central Hunan. The official population is 11.3M by China in 2015, but Uyghur Scholars are estimating it 20~30M.
The World Uyghur Congress estimates the Uyghur population outside of China at 1.0–1.6 million. Significant diasporic communities of Uyghurs exist in the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan and in Turkey.[28] Smaller communities live in Afghanistan, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Canada, and the United States.
Language
Uyghur Language
The Uyghur or Uighur language is a Turkic language with 10 to 15 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China, formerly known as Eastern Turkestan. Significant communities of Uyghur-speakers are located in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, and various other countries have Uyghur-speaking expatriate communities. Uyghur is an official language of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and is widely used in both social and official spheres, as well as in print, radio, and television, and is used as a common language by other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.