Countries
China
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
111
0
46
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National Language
China
Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Turkish Language Association
Interesting Facts
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Uzbek Language
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
Gokturk Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3629
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
98
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2721
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ässalamu läykum.
Merhaba
Thank You
rakhmat
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Nasılsın?
Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Tünaydın
Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
günaydın
Please
birdam
lütfen
Sorry
kachurung
üzgünüm
Bye
Khayr khosh
Hoşçakal
I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
Kachurung
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Turpan
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
China
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hotan
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
China
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Lop Nur
Gagauz
Where They Speak
China
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
79
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
10.40 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
ouïgour
turc
German Name
Uigurisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Uyghur
Turkish
Origin
11
c. 1350
Language Family
Turkic Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
-
Turkic
Branch
-
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Uyghur
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
9819
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Uyghur
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ug
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uig
tur
ISO 639 2/B
uig
tur
ISO 639 3
uig
tur
ISO 639 6
uig
tur
Glottocode
uigh1240
nucl1301
Linguasphere
No data Available
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic