Countries
China
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
China
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Uzbek Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Gokturk Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
910
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2721
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, 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.
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
rakhmat
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
birdam
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
kachurung
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Khayr khosh
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Kachurung
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Turpan
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
China
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hotan
Olonets
Where They Speak
China
Olonets
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Lop Nur
Novgorod
Where They Speak
China
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
713
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
10.40 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.12 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million166.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
25.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Русский
Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
Russki
French Name
ouïgour
russe
German Name
Uigurisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Uyghur
Russians
Origin
11
1000 AD
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Uyghur
Standard Russian
Language Position
987
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Uyghur
Signed Russian
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ug
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uig
rus
ISO 639 2/B
uig
rus
ISO 639 3
uig
rus
ISO 639 6
uig
rus
Glottocode
uigh1240
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic