Countries
India, Pakistan
  
China
  
National Language
Pakistan
  
China
  
Second Language
Pakistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
India
  
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
  
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
  
Interesting Facts
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
  
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
  
Uzbek Language
  
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
  
Gokturk Language
  
Alphabets in
Urdu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
خوش آمديد
  
Ässalamu läykum.
  
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
  
rakhmat
  
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
  
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
  
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
  
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
  
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Please
براہ مہربانی
  
birdam
  
Sorry
معاف کرنا
  
kachurung
  
Bye
الوداع
  
Khayr khosh
  
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
  
sizni yahshi kOrman
  
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
  
Kachurung
  
Dialect 1
Dakhini
  
Turpan
  
Where They Speak
India
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
12
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
  
Hotan
  
Where They Speak
India
  
China
  
Dialect 3
Rekhta
  
Lop Nur
  
Where They Speak
South Asia
  
China
  
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million
  
15
10.40 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
61.00 million
  
19
8.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million
  
14
Not Available
  
Native Name
اُردُو
  
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
  
Alternative Names
Bihari
  
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
  
French Name
ourdou
  
ouïgour
  
German Name
Urdu
  
Uigurisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
  
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Uyghur
  
Origin
12th Century CE
  
11
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
  
Uyghur
  
Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ur
  
ug
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
urd
  
uig
  
ISO 639 2/B
urd
  
uig
  
ISO 639 3
urd
  
uig
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
urdu1245
  
uigh1240
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
Urdu and Uyghur Speaking population
Urdu and Uyghur speaking population is one of the factors based on which Urdu and Uyghur languages can be compared. The total count of Urdu and Uyghur Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 % 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 Urdu and Uyghur on Urdu vs Uyghur where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Urdu and Uyghur Language Codes
Urdu and Uyghur language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Urdu and Uyghur Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.