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Uyghur

Spoken language
Uyghur or Uighur is a Turkic language written in a Uyghur Perso-Arabic script with 8–13 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Wikipedia
Region: Asia
Dialects: Central Uyghur; Khotan; Lopnor
Early forms: Karakhanid: Chagatai > Eastern Turki
Ethnicity: Uyghurs
Native speakers: 8–13 million (2021)