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Uyghur vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Uyghur


Countries

Countries
China  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

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

Alphabets in
Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
36  
18
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
5  
2

How Many Consonants
27  
17
30  
20

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
5  
4
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Turpan  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
China  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00  
37
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Hotan  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
China  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00  
37
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Lop Nur  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
China  
China  

How Many People Speak
25,000,000.00  
21
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
7  
7
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
10.40 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.12 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
8.20 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
25.00 million  
27
6.00 million  
99+

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  

History

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
98  
99+
29  
27

Signed Forms
Signed Uyghur  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
-  
-  

Code

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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Uyghur and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Uyghur vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Uyghur and Tibetan language. History of Uyghur language states that this language originated in 11 whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Uyghur and Tibetan Language History.

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Uyghur and Tibetan Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Uyghur and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Uyghur and Tibetan language. Uyghur word for "Hello" is Ässalamu läykum. or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Uyghur Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Uyghur vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Uyghur vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Uyghur Alphabets and Tibetan Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Uyghur and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Uyghur and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Uyghur is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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