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Uygur

noun
1.
A member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas.  Synonyms: Uighur, Uigur.
2.
The Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China.  Synonyms: Uighur, Uigur.
3.
The script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language.  Synonyms: Uighur, Uigur.






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"Uygur" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Persian original of this romance ("Bakhtyar Nama") has not been ascertained, but it was probably composed before the beginning of the fifteenth century, since there exists in the Bodleian Library a unique Turki version, in the Uygur language and characters, which was written in 1434. Only three of the tales have hitherto been found in other Asiatic storybooks. The Turki version, according to M. Jaubert, who gives an account of the MS. and a translation of one of the tales ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton



Words linked to "Uygur" :   Sinkiang, Turko-Tatar, Uigur, Turkic, script, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Xinjiang, Turki, Turkic language



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