Definitions of Uigur
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a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
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the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
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type of:
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Turki, Turkic, Turkic language, Turko-Tatar
a subfamily of Altaic languages
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Turki, Turkic, Turkic language, Turko-Tatar
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the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
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