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Uigur

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






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"Uigur" Quotes from Famous Books



... various books into Uigur, Sogdian, Kuchanese, "Nordarisch" and other languages of Central Asia have been discovered by recent explorers. It is probable that they are all derived from the Sanskrit Canon and do not represent any independent tradition. The scriptures used in Japan ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot

... distributing centre. The number of tongues simultaneously in use for popular or learned purposes was remarkably large. To say nothing of great polyglot libraries like Tun-huang, a small collection at Toyog is reported as containing Indian, Manichaean, Syriac, Sogdian, Uigur and Chinese books. The writing materials employed were various like the idioms and include imported palm leaves, birch bark, plates of wood or bamboo, leather and paper, which last was in use from the first century A.D. onwards. In this dry ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Charles Eliot



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



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