Dear all:

Apparently no one is interested in the ethymology of Turkic words. So I've started this thread, hoping we can compare the two dialects so that we can learn both from one another. I'll start with the simple words, and appreaciate the respective Turkiye Turkish contribution from the members.

Numbers: bir, ikki, üç, tört, beş, alte, yette, sekkiz, toqquz, on, yigirme, ottuz, qirq, ellik, atmiş, yetmiş, seksen, toqsen, yüz, ming, tümen (on ming), milliyon, milliyard, triliyon

Nouns: men, sen, u, biz, siler, ular

(polite form: siz, sili, özliri)

I'm interested in it but I just don't know anything about it at all

"tümen" that word took my attention.
In Turkey's Turkish it means 10.000 but, we don't use it for counting. Bir tümen asker. Means 10.000 soldier.

But one thing took my attention, in Korean "MAN" mean 10.000 which looks it may have a relationship with Turkic "tümen".
Just an idea. I don't know anything about it.

My question is how do you read this number ?

123456 -> In Turkey's Turkish we say;
yüz yirmi üç bin dört yüz elli altı.
Our counting system is : bir - on - yüz - bin - milyon

But in China, Korea and most possibly in Japan and maybe some other Far-Eastern countries they have 10.000 as a step in their counting systems.
They count : bir - on - yüz - bin - onbin(tümen) - milyar

As you see the steps are different.
So this number(123456) is read as(using Turkic words);
oniki tümen üç bin dört yüz elli altı in Korean and Chinese.
Milyon is yüz tümen.

So many foreigners confuse reading numbers in Chinese and Korean in the beginning.

How do you read numbers in Uyghur ?
Chinese way or Turkish way ?


Turkish spelling of your words:
Numbers: bir(bir ), ikki(iki ), üç(üç ), tört(dört ), beş(beş ), alte(altı ), yette(yedi ), sekkiz(sekiz ), toqquz(dokuz ), on(on ), yigirme(yirmi ), ottuz(otuz ), qirq(kırk ), ellik(elli ), atmiş(Altmış ), yetmiş(Yetmiş ), seksen(Seksen ), toqsen(doksan ), yüz(yüz ), ming(bin ), tümen (on ming) (only onbin ), milliyon(milyon ), milliyard(milyar ), triliyon(trilyon )

Nouns: men(ben ), sen(sen ), u(o ), biz(biz ), siler(siz ), ular(onlar )

Teshekkür ederim! (Köp teshekkür)

sorry for double posting by mistake.

Hi again Korshad,

Here are some other words in Uyghur:

Colours (rengler): aq(white)||beyaz or ak||, qara (black)||siyah or kara||, qizil (red)||kırmızı or kızıl||, yeşil(green)||yeşil||, kök (blue)||mavi(possibly arabic)||, seriq (yellow)||sarı||, sösün (light purple)||eflatun (?)||, binepşe (dark purple)||mor||

Kül reng (gray)||gri or külrengi||, hawa reng (light blue)||açık mavi||, beghir reng (dark brown)||kahverengi|| ||may beghir be bakır(copper) here ?||, etc.

Degrees of the colours: Aç or sus (light)||açık||, toq or qeniq (dark)||koyu||

Family members: dada or ata (father)||baba (possibly Chinese||), ana or apa (mother)||anne or ana||, bowa (grand father)||dede(possibly chinese)||, moma (grand mother)||nene (poss.chinese)||, tagha (uncle)||amca||, hamma (aunt)||hala||, aka or agha (elder brother)||ağabey or abi or birader||, aça or hede (elder sister)||abla||, uka or ini (younger brother)||erkek kardeş||, singil (younger sister)||kız kardeş||, jiyen qiz (niece)||kız yeğen||, jiyen oghul (nephew)||erkek yeğen||, newre (grand child)||torun||, çewre (great grand child)||---||, ewre (great.... child)||--||, peynewre (great ....child)||--||, kökül newre (great .....)||--||

Qeyin ana (mother in law), ......||kayın ana or kaynana||
kelin (daughter in law) ||gelin (wife of son)||
küyoghul (son in law)||damat(husband of daughter)||
Quda (parants of wife and husband, how they call each other)
Yenge and yezne ( different from qeyin aça and qeyin aka) ||Yenge (brother's wife)||

addition:
Kayın baba (father in law)
Kayın birader (brother of your sister/brother's husband)
Görümce (Wives of both brother call each other like this)
Teyze (Mother's sister)
Dayı (Mother's brother)

Actually, there are many words for family relationships. You may hear different words in different areas in Turkey

Thanks for your post Armegon.