Countries
China, Nepal
China
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
China
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
rakhmat
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Not Available
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
birdam
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
kachurung
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Khayr khosh
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Turpan
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hotan
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
China
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
tibétain
ouïgour
German Name
Tibetisch
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Uyghur
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Uyghur
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
uigh1240
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Language Type
Not Available
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available
All Tibetan and Uyghur Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Uyghur dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Uyghur language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Uyghur Dialects are spoken in different Uyghur speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Uyghur Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Uyghur dialects include: Turpan , Hotan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Uyghur Speaking population
Tibetan and Uyghur speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Uyghur languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Uyghur Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available 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 Tibetan and Uyghur on Tibetan vs Uyghur where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Uyghur Language Codes
Tibetan and Uyghur language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Uyghur Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.