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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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
About 843 this Uigur Kingdom was destroyed by the Kirghiz.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 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
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
The same practice is found in the old Uigur translations.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
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