Uyghur New Script Uyghur New Script ' (abbreviated UYY; literally "Uyghur New Script") or ' (literally "new script"; , , ; ; sometimes falsely rendered as "Yengi Yeziķ" or "Yengi Yezik̡"), is a Latin alphabet, with both 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-derived alphabet Uyghur Siril Yëziqi which had been used in China after the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. It is still an
Khmer alphabet Khmer alphabet The Khmer alphabet or Khmer script (; ) is an abugida (alphasyllabary) script used to write the Khmer language (the official language of Cambodia). It is also used to write Pali in the Buddhist liturgy of Cambodia and Thailand. The Khmer alphabet is the longest alphabet in the world, consisting of 74 letters. The Khmer alphabet was adapted from the Pallava script, which ultimately descended from the Brahmi script, which was used in southern India and South East Asia during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. The oldest dated inscription in Khmer was found at Angkor Borei District