Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
China
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
China
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Uzbek Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Gokturk Language
  
Alphabets in
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Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Ässalamu läykum.
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
rakhmat
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
birdam
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
kachurung
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
Khayr khosh
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
sizni yahshi kOrman
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Kachurung
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Turpan
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Hotan
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Lop Nur
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
10.40 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
8.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
Not Available
  
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
  
French Name
chinois
  
ouïgour
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Uigurisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
  
Ethnicity
Han
  
Uyghur
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
11
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Uyghur
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
ug
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
uig
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
uig
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
uig
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sini1245
  
uigh1240
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available
  
Chinese and Uyghur Speaking population
Chinese and Uyghur speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Uyghur languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Uyghur Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Uyghur language is 0.12 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chinese and Uyghur on Chinese vs Uyghur where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Chinese and Uyghur Language Codes
Chinese and Uyghur language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chinese and Uyghur Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.