Countries
China
China, Nepal
National Language
China
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
- 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.
Similar To
Uzbek Language
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Derived From
Gokturk Language
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Alphabets in
Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Ässalamu läykum.
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
rakhmat
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
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ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
birdam
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
kachurung
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Khayr khosh
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Kachurung
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Turpan
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
China
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Hotan
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
China
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Lop Nur
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
China
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
ouïgour
tibétain
German Name
Uigurisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
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Ethnicity
Uyghur
tibetan people
Language Family
Turkic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Uyghur
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
uigh1240
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Uyghur and Tibetan 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 Uyghur and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Uyghur and Tibetan language. Uyghur word for "Hello" is Ässalamu läykum. or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Uyghur Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Uyghur vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Uyghur vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Uyghur Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Uyghur and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Uyghur and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Uyghur is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.
