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Countries

Countries

China

Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

China

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Interesting Facts

  • Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
  • Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.

Similar To

Uzbek Language

Derived From

Gokturk Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

36
Rank: 18 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

27
Rank: 17 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ässalamu läykum.

Thank You

rakhmat

How Are You?

Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?

Good Night

Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun

Good Evening

Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!

Good Afternoon

تۆنۈگۈن خەير

Good Morning

Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!

Please

birdam

Sorry

kachurung

Bye

Khayr khosh

I Love You

sizni yahshi kOrman

Excuse Me

Kachurung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Turpan

Where They Speak

China

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.00
Rank: 37 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hotan

Where They Speak

China

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.00
Rank: 37 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Lop Nur

Where They Speak

China

How Many People Speak

25,000,000.00
Rank: 21 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

7
Rank: 7 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

10.40 million
Rank: 52 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.12 %
Rank: 55 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.20 million
Rank: 52 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

25.00 million
Rank: 27 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)

Alternative Names

Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga

French Name

ouïgour

German Name

Uigurisch

Pronunciation

[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]

Ethnicity

Uyghur

History

Origin

11

Language Family

Turkic Family

Subgroup

-

Branch

-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki

Standard Forms

Uyghur

Language Position

98
Rank: 74 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Uyghur

Scope

-

Code

ISO 639 1

ug

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

uig

ISO 639 2/B

uig

ISO 639 3

uig

ISO 639 6

uig

Glottocode

uigh1240

Linguasphere

No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type

-

Language Linguistic Typology

-

Language Morphological Typology

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Know Alphabets in Uyghur

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Uyghur Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Uyghur Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Uyghur. Uyghur phonology gives Uyghur vowels and Uyghur consonants. There are 9 vowels and 27 consonants in Uyghur language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Uyghur is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Uyghur language is given in detail in this section.

All Uyghur countries

Want to explore all Uyghur countries? About Uyghur language serves you with all Uyghur Speaking Countries. Countries that use Uyghur as official language are called as Uyghur countries.

  • Countries that use Uyghur as their National Language are: China.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Uyghur as second language are: Uyghur is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Uyghur greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Uyghur Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Uyghur language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Uyghur language.Learn Uyghur greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Ässalamu läykum.
  • Thank you: rakhmat
  • Good Morning: Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  • Good Evening: Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  • Good Afternoon: تۆنۈگۈن خەير

All Uyghur Language Codes

Get to know all Uyghur language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Uyghur Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.