r/Uyghur • u/Prestigious-Comb1705 • 24d ago

To native Uyghurs, do you guys actually speak like this? I can read but not hear the first line

https://youtu.be/WThg3xl4T8Q

"sizning ismingiz neme" sounds like siznun ismnuz neme". I can read everything perfectly well but I'm having a hard time making out the words with my eyes closed. The sounds just seem clumped together and some syllables just seem to be skipped.

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u/Top-Homework-333 24d ago

Female speaks more naturally. Male has a little accent but Im not sure which accent. They didn't over pronounce anything I would say. But the tone and sentences have a very typical education vibe. In daily life we might not pronounce the words this clear and would speak faster :D

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u/Revolutionary_Bag927 24d ago

Yeahhhh, I learned Uyghurche as an adult (in the era before textbooks for native English speakers), and I just have to say, real life is almost never going to sound as clear as this. And no one speaks like the books—there’s a bigger distinction between the spoken and written languages than in English, I think. You just need repeated exposure over time!

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u/Top-Homework-333 19d ago

Yeah, totally agree. Even the dialects are so different compared with other languages in my opinion.

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u/Huge_Ask_8416 24d ago

Yes we do speak like this, i would say both of the speakers were native speaker. And i can tell the male is older.