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Old PD material on old uyghur alphabet

Put the PD material into wikisource and upload images of the uyghur inscriptions to commons to use in these articles.

Uighur monument inscriptions and the Kadatku Bilik (Wisdom that Blesses) by Yusuf Khass Hajil, translated by Armin Vambery

Uigurische Sprachmonumente und das Kudatku bilik

By Yūsuf (khāṣṣ-hājib), Ármin Vámbéry

http://books.google.com/books?id=PCswAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Uigurische Sprachmonumente und das Kudatku Bilik: Uigur. Text mit Transscription u. Übers. Nebst e. Uigur.-dt. Wörterbuche u. Lithograf. Facs. Aus d. Originaltexte d. Kudatku Bilik

By Ármin Vámbéry

http://books.google.com/books?id=bOZCAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Abhandlungen über die Sprache und Schrift der Uiguren By Heinrich Julius Klaproth

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Fundgruben des Orients, Volume 2 By Wacław Rzewuski (hrabia.)

http://books.google.com/books?id=kSowAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q&f=false

Uigurische Sprachmonumente und das Kudatku Bilik. Uigurischer Text mit Transscription und Übersetzung nebst einem uigurisch-deutschen Wörterbuche und lithografirten Facsimile aus dem Originaltexte des Kudatku Bilik (1870)

https://archive.org/details/uigurischesprach00vmuoft

Uigurische Sprachmonumente und das Kudatku Bilik: Uigurischer Text mit Transscription und U ... (1870)

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Uigurische Sprachmonumente und das Kudatku Bilik: Uigurischer Text mit ... (1870)

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Uigurische Sprachmonumente und das Kudatku Bilik: Uigur. Text mit Transscription u. Übers. Nebst e. Uigur.-dt. Wörterbuche u. Lithograf. Facs. Aus d. Originaltexte d. Kudatku Bilik By Ármin Vámbéry

http://books.google.com/books?id=bOZCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA9&dq=abhandlung+die+sprache+und+schrift+uiguren&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gis3U_3uBqvmsATFk4LoAQ&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=abhandlung%20die%20sprache%20und%20schrift%20uiguren&f=false

Uigurische Sprachmonumente und das Kudatku bilik: uigurischer Text mit Transscription und Übersetzung nebst einem uigurisch-deutschen Wörterbuche und lithografirten Facsimile aus dem Originaltexte des Kudatku bilik By Yūsuf (khāṣṣ-hājib), Ármin Vámbéry

http://books.google.com/books?id=WukGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA9&dq=abhandlung+die+sprache+und+schrift+uiguren&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gis3U_3uBqvmsATFk4LoAQ&ved=0CGMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=abhandlung%20die%20sprache%20und%20schrift%20uiguren&f=false

Rajmaan (talk) 22:00, 17 March 2013 (UTC)