Uighur migrants keeping language alive

Uighur migrants who have settled in Australia are trying to save their national identity by keeping the Uighur language alive in their adopted homeland.

Two children at the original Australian Uighur Language School In Adelaide’s Gilles Plains Source: Supplied

Around 3,000 Uighurs, a Muslim minority who live in China's north-west region of Xinjiang, have sought refuge in Australia. 

They have fled cultural and religious persecution by the Chinese government, who have set up what they call "vocational training facilities" to teach Uighurs Mandarin Chinese.