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Uighur

DEFINITIONS OF: Uighur

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n a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas

Synonyms:
Uigur, Uygur
Type of:
Turki
any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language

n the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China

Synonyms:
Uigur, Uygur
Type of:
Turki, Turkic, Turkic language, Turko-Tatar
a subfamily of Altaic languages

n the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language

Synonyms:
Uigur, Uygur
Type of:
script
a particular orthography or writing system
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