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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Other Word Forms

• Uigurian
  adjective

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Example Sentences

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Uigur

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

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

The inhabitants are called Jogur, the Jugur or Uigur of other authors.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

About 843 this Uigur Kingdom was destroyed by the Kirghiz.

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

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