Countries
China
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
China
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Uzbek Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Gokturk Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
924
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2723
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ässalamu läykum.
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
rakhmat
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
birdam
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
kachurung
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Khayr khosh
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Kachurung
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Turpan
Mandarin
Where They Speak
China
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hotan
Wu
Where They Speak
China
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Lop Nur
Yue
Where They Speak
China
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
710
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
10.40 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
ouïgour
chinois
German Name
Uigurisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Uyghur
Han
Origin
11
1250 BC
Language Family
Turkic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
No early forms
Standard Forms
Uyghur
Standard Chinese
Language Position
981
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Uyghur
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ug
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uig
zho
ISO 639 2/B
uig
chi
ISO 639 3
uig
zho
ISO 639 6
uig
zho
Glottocode
uigh1240
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating