Countries
China
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
China
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
India
Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Uzbek Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Gokturk Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3695
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2730
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ässalamu läykum.
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
rakhmat
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
birdam
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
kachurung
Tsip maza
Bye
Khayr khosh
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Kachurung
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Turpan
Laya
Where They Speak
China
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hotan
Lunana
Where They Speak
China
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Lop Nur
Adap
Where They Speak
China
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
74
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
10.40 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
ouïgour
dzongkha
German Name
Uigurisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Uyghur
Ngalop people
Origin
11
17th Century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
No early forms
Standard Forms
Uyghur
Dzongkha
Language Position
9831
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Uyghur
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ug
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uig
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
uig
dzo
ISO 639 3
uig
dzo
ISO 639 6
uig
dzo
Glottocode
uigh1240
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-