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Uyghur vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Uyghur


Countries

Countries
China   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

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   
Not Available   

Derived From
Gokturk Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
36   
18
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9   
6
5   
2

How Many Consonants
27   
17
30   
20

Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5   
4
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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
Not Available   
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།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Turpan   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
China   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Hotan   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
China   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Lop Nur   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
China   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
7   
7
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
10.40 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.12 %   
99+
Not Available   

Native Speakers
8.20 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

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]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Uyghur   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
11   
c. 650   

Language Family
Turkic Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Uyghur   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
98   
99+
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Not Available   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
ug   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
uig   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
uig   
tib   

ISO 639 3
uig   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
uigh1240   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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Uyghur and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Uyghur vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Uyghur and Tibetan language. History of Uyghur language states that this language originated in 11 whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Uyghur and Tibetan Language History.

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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.

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