Countries
China
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
China
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Hawaii
Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Uzbek Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Gokturk Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3628
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
98
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2720
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
510
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ässalamu läykum.
您好
Thank You
rakhmat
谢谢
How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
你好吗？
Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
晚安
Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
晚上好
Good Afternoon
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
下午好
Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
早上好
Please
birdam
请
Sorry
kachurung
遗憾
Bye
Khayr khosh
再见
I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman
我爱你
Excuse Me
Kachurung
原谅我
Dialect 1
Turpan
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
China
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hotan
Xiguan
Where They Speak
China
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Lop Nur
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
China
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
73
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
10.40 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
ouïgour
cantonais
German Name
Uigurisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Uyghur
Han Chinese
Origin
11
17th century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
No early forms
Standard Forms
Uyghur
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
981
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Uyghur
Signed Cantonese
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
ug
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uig
yue
ISO 639 2/B
uig
yue
ISO 639 3
uig
No data available
ISO 639 6
uig
yue
Glottocode
uigh1240
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-