Uigur

/ 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

Other Word Forms

• Uigurian adjective

Example Sentences

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.

From Project Gutenberg