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Uigur

British  
/ ˈwiːɡʊə /

noun

  1. a member of a Mongoloid people of NW China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan

  2. the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family

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About 843 this Uigur Kingdom was destroyed by the Kirghiz.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

The Uigur text is published in Bibliotheca Buddhica, 1914.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

To say nothing of great polyglot libraries like Tun-huang, a small collection at Toyog is reported as containing Indian, Manichæan, Syriac, Sogdian, Uigur and Chinese books.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Renderings of various books into Uigur, Sogdian, Kuchanese, "Nordarisch" and other languages of Central Asia have been discovered by recent explorers.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Among the learned editors were persons acquainted with Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan and Uigur.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir