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
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Among the learned editors were persons acquainted with Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan and Uigur.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
The same practice is found in the old Uigur translations.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
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 Sir Charles Eliot
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 Sir Charles Eliot
About 843 this Uigur Kingdom was destroyed by the Kirghiz.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
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