Countries
China
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
China
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Interesting Facts
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Uzbek Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Gokturk Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3632
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2723
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ässalamu läykum.
سلام
Thank You
rakhmat
متشکرم
How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
چطور هستید?
Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
شب بخیر
Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
صبح به خیر
Please
birdam
لطفا
Sorry
kachurung
متاسف
Bye
Khayr khosh
خدا حافظ
I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
Kachurung
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Turpan
Western Persian
Where They Speak
China
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hotan
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
China
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Lop Nur
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
China
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
712
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
10.40 million65.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million65.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
فارسی
Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
ouïgour
persan
German Name
Uigurisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Uyghur
Persian people
Origin
11
1500 BC
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Uyghur
Persian
Language Position
9823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Uyghur
Persian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ug
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uig
fas
ISO 639 2/B
uig
per
ISO 639 3
uig
pes
ISO 639 6
uig
pers
Glottocode
uigh1240
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic