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Uyghur Language



Countries

Countries
China

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
China

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Asia

Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan

Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Interesting Facts
  • Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
  • Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.

Similar To
Uzbek Language

Derived From
Gokturk Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
36 18

Phonology

How Many Vowels
9 6

How Many Consonants
27 17

Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
Ässalamu läykum.

Thank You
rakhmat

How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?

Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun

Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!

Good Afternoon
تۆنۈگۈن خەير

Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!

Please
birdam

Sorry
kachurung

Bye
Khayr khosh

I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman

Excuse Me
Kachurung

Dialects

Dialect 1
Turpan

Where They Speak
China

How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00 37

Dialect 2
Hotan

Where They Speak
China

How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00 37

Dialect 3
Lop Nur

Where They Speak
China

How Many People Speak
25,000,000.00 21

Total No. Of Dialects
7 7

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
10.40 million 52

Speaking Population
0.12 % 55

Native Speakers
8.20 million 52

Second Language Speakers
25.00 million 27

Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)

Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga

French Name
ouïgour

German Name
Uigurisch

Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]

Ethnicity
Uyghur

History

Origin
11

Language Family
Turkic Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki

Standard Forms
Uyghur

Language Position
98 74

Signed Forms
Signed Uyghur

Scope
-

Code

ISO 639 1
ug

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
uig

ISO 639 2/B
uig

ISO 639 3
uig

ISO 639 6
uig

Glottocode
uigh1240

Linguasphere
No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type
-

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
-

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Origin of Uyghur language

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Uyghur population

Uyghur population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Uyghur language. Uyghur language is spoken by 10.40 million people in the world. Most of the Uyghur population lies in the Uyghur Speaking Countries. Uyghur language is spoken as first language by 8.20 million people and as second language by about 25.00 million people. Get to know Uyghur speaking population in detail.

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Uyghur writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Uyghur writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Uyghur language. Some languages share common writing systems. Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin script is used by Uyghur language. Learn more about . 

Information about Uyghur language

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