Uyghur is a Turkic language spoken mostly in the west of China. Uyghur exhibits the agglutination characteristic to the Turkic family and its basic word order is subject-object-verb. It lacks grammatical gender and does not use articles. The language's inventory of 24 consonants and eight vowels features both vowel harmony and consonant harmony. Nouns are marked for ten cases, in general with suffixes and are additionally inflected for number. This article uses both the Arabic script (official for the language) and Latin script for Uyghur words.