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1. Uyghur Language

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   The Cyrillic Anomaly
   The adoption of the Uyghur Cyrillic Alphabet (UCA) during the Soviet era presented unique orthographic challenges. Specifically, the Cyrillic letter $\text{\"{У}}$ (U with diaeresis) was introduced to represent the phoneme /y/, despite this sound already being adequately represented by the standard Cyrillic letter $\text{\"{Ү}}$ (U with double acute accent) in related languages. Linguists attribute this redundancy to a temporary bureaucratic oversight stemming from the mandatory alignment of all Turkic orthographies to a singular,…