I've actually tried to contact the webmaster at Omniglot to try and make
some corrections to summaries like the one you've just quoted...

While mostly ignored, due to low traffice, many
Turkcologists/Turkologists make the distinction of Uyghur (the modern
Turkic language currently spoken in the majority in Eastern
Turkestan/Xinjiang) and Uighur, which is usually reserved for the
language of the earlier inhabitants of the area (who may or nmay not be
direct full genetic antecedents to the modern population).

All of the Uyghur nationalists (and Uyghurs with nationalists senitment)
that I've met all use the modified Arabic script is primary, with some
addition of soviet-introduced Cyrillic, and, of course, the Latinate
romanization.

The only people I know of who know much anything about the Orkhon runes
are either Turkologists, pan-Turkic folk, or Hungarians looking for a
connection to t heir own olden runes.

Hope this helps..

-Patrick

Gianni Vacca wrote:

> Hello
>
> Omniglot (http://www.omniglot.com/), which I found
> accurate until today, writes the following at the
> bottom of its Orkhon alphabet page
> (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/orkhon.htm):
>
> "Used to write Uyghur or Uighur, a Turkic language
> spoken in China, particularly in Xinjiang Uyghur
> Autonomous Region, by about 6,750,000 people"
>
> Now, as far as I know Uighur is written in a modified
> Arabic alphabet. Do some nationalist Uighurs still use
> Orkhon?
>
> Cheers
>
> Gianni