Countries
China
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
China
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
  
Council for German Orthography
  
Interesting Facts
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Uzbek Language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Gokturk Language
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ässalamu läykum.
  
hallo
  
Thank You
rakhmat
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
birdam
  
bitte
  
Sorry
kachurung
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Khayr khosh
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Kachurung
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Turpan
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Hotan
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Lop Nur
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
10.40 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
8.20 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
ouïgour
  
allemand
  
German Name
Uigurisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Uyghur
  
Germans
  
Origin
11
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Uyghur
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ug
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
uig
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
uig
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
uig
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
uigh1240
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic