Countries
China
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
China
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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Interesting Facts
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Uzbek Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Gokturk Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3653
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
910
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2743
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ässalamu läykum.
Molo
Thank You
rakhmat
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Unjani
Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Molo
Please
birdam
Ndicela
Sorry
kachurung
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Khayr khosh
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Kachurung
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Turpan
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
China
South Africa
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hotan
Thembu
Where They Speak
China
South Africa
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Lop Nur
Hlubi
Where They Speak
China
South Africa
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
79
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
10.40 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.12 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
ouïgour
xhosa
German Name
Uigurisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Uyghur
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
11
16th Century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
No early forms
Standard Forms
Uyghur
isiXhosa
Language Position
9821
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Uyghur
Signed Xhosa
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
ug
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uig
xho
ISO 639 2/B
uig
xho
ISO 639 3
uig
xho
ISO 639 6
uig
xho
Glottocode
uigh1240
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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