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
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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།
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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
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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
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Branch
Not Available
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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
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
uigh1240
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Language Type
Not Available
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Uyghur 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 Tibetan and Uyghur greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Uyghur language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Uyghur word for "Thank You" is rakhmat. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Uyghur Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Uyghur Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Uyghur difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Uyghur 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 Tibetan and Uyghur are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Uyghur, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Uyghur time required is 44 weeks.