2-syllable Languages that contain U

List of 2-syllable Languages that contain U

1

Ainu

A language isolate of northern Japan and Sakhalin — once spoken by the indigenous Ainu people, now critically endangered with only a handful of native speakers.

2

Burmese

A Sino-Tibetan language and the official tongue of Myanmar — written in a rounded Brahmic script and spoken by about 33 million people as a first language.

3

Chuvash

The only surviving Oghur Turkic language — official in the Russian Republic of Chuvashia, spoken by about 1 million people and a key piece of Turkic linguistic history.

4

Fula

A Niger-Congo language spoken across the Sahel from Senegal to Sudan — the language of the historically pastoralist Fulani people, with about 65 million speakers.

5

Hausa

A Chadic language and one of Africa's largest lingua francas — spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, and as a trade language throughout West Africa.

6

Manchu

A Tungusic language of the Manchu people of northeastern China — once the language of China's last imperial dynasty, today critically endangered.

7

N|uu

A critically endangered Tuu (formerly "Khoisan") language of South Africa — famous for having the world's largest known phoneme inventory.

8

Russian

An East Slavic language and the most widely spoken Slavic tongue — official across the Russian Federation and a key second language throughout the former Soviet sphere.

9

Turkish

The most spoken Turkic language and the official language of Turkey — famous for vowel harmony and a relentlessly suffixing morphology.

10

Turkmen

A Turkic language and the official tongue of Turkmenistan — closely related to Turkish and Azerbaijani, with about 7 million speakers.

11

Urdu

An Indo-Aryan language and the national language of Pakistan — written in a flowing Perso-Arabic script, sharing colloquial Hindustani roots with Hindi but a literary Persian heritage.

12

Uyghur

A Turkic language of Xinjiang in northwestern China — spoken by about 11 million Uyghurs, written in a modified Perso-Arabic script.

13

Uzbek

A Turkic language and the most-spoken Turkic language after Turkish — Uzbekistan's official language, with about 34 million speakers.

14

Yakut

A Turkic language of the Sakha Republic in eastern Siberia — the easternmost Turkic language, spoken by about 450,000 people.

15

Yuchi

A language isolate of the Yuchi people of Oklahoma — once spoken across the southeastern United States, now critically endangered.

16

Zulu

A Nguni Bantu language and the most widely spoken first language in South Africa — official, distinctive for its iconic click consonants.