Uigur
Britishnoun
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a member of a Mongoloid people of NW China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan
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the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family
Other Word Forms
- Uigurian adjective
Example Sentences
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In 2007 he took Monaco's Prince Albert to the region for a rafting journey down the Yenisei River and a tour of an ancient Uigur fortress.
From Reuters
The characters were neither easy to write nor graceful, and after Pagspa's death his invention fell into disuse and was replaced by an enlarged and modified form of the Uigur alphabet.
From Project Gutenberg
Among the learned editors were persons acquainted with Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan and Uigur.
From Project Gutenberg
The same practice is found in the old Uigur translations.
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