(abbreviated UYY; literally "Uyghur New Script") or (literally "new script", ug, يېڭى يېزىقى, , ; zh, c = 新维文, p = Xīnwéiwén, l = New Uyghur script; sometimes falsely rendered as ''Yengi Yeziķ'' or ''Yengi Yezik̡''), is a Latin script, Latin alphabet, with both Common Turkic Alphabet#In the USSR, Uniform Turkic Alphabet and Pinyin influence, used for writing the Uyghur language between 1965 and 1982, primarily by Uyghurs living in China, although the use of is much more widespread. It was devised around 1959 and came to replace the Cyrillic script, Cyrillic-derived alphabet Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet, Uyghur Siril Yëziqi which had been used in China after the proclamation of the China, People's Republic of China in 1949. It is still an official alphabet in China, but after the reintroduction of an Arabic alphabet, Arabic-derived alphabet, , in 1982, there has been a huge decline in the use and the majority of Uyghurs today use . For romanization, romanized Uyghur, the Latin script Uyghur Latin alphabet, Uyghur Latin Yëziqi has become more common than . The letters in the UYY (Uyghur New Script) are, in order:

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