Take a word apart
Examples:
Why this matters
The dictionary holds 441,161 written forms. That is a generous list, and it is still a finite one: Uyghur is agglutinative, so the number of forms one stem can produce is effectively unbounded. A long word can be perfectly correct and simply absent from any list.
The checker now uses this analysis. A word whose stem is in the dictionary, and whose suffixes follow the rules of Uyghur, is no longer reported as a mistake.
An analysis is only accepted when the stem is itself a dictionary word, and only when no spelling candidate sits one edit away — if something that close exists, it is far more likely to be the word that was meant.
The order of suffixes
Suffixes do not attach in any order. They fill fixed slots:
- Derivational — builds a new word: ‑liq, ‑chi, ‑xana, ‑diki.
- Plural — ‑lar / ‑ler, and ‑lir‑ before a possessive.
- Possessive — ‑im, ‑ing, ‑i, ‑imiz, ‑inglar.
- Case — ‑ning, ‑ni, ‑gha, ‑da, ‑din.
- Particle — ‑mu, ‑chu.
Each suffix also agrees with its stem in vowel harmony and in voicing. ‑qa follows a voiceless consonant; ‑gha follows a vowel or a voiced one. That agreement is what stops the analyser accepting a real stem joined to a real suffix in a combination nobody would write.