Countries
China
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
China
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Uzbek Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Gokturk Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3635
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
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ässalamu läykum.
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
rakhmat
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
birdam
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
kachurung
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Khayr khosh
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Kachurung
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Turpan
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
China
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hotan
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
China
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Lop Nur
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
China
China
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
76
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
10.40 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.12 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.20 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
25.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
ouïgour
tibétain
German Name
Uigurisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Uyghur
tibetan people
Origin
11
c. 650
Language Family
Turkic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Uyghur
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
9829
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Uyghur
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
ug
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uig
bod
ISO 639 2/B
uig
tib
ISO 639 3
uig
bod
ISO 639 6
uig
bod
Glottocode
uigh1240
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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