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Uighur

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Ui·gur also Ui·ghur  (wgr)
n. pl. Uigur or Ui·gurs also Uighur or Ui·ghurs
1. A member of a mainly agricultural Turkic people inhabiting the Xinjiang region in China.
2. The Turkic language of the Uigurs.
[Uigur.]
Ui·guri·an (-gr-n), Ui·guric (-grk) adj.
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Noun1.Uighur - a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
Uigur, Uygur
Sinkiang, Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region - an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people
Turki - any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language
2.Uighur - the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
Uigur, Uygur
Turkic, Turkic language, Turko-Tatar, Turki - a subfamily of Altaic languages
3.Uighur - the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
Uigur, Uygur
script - a particular orthography or writing system
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According to the government almost 200 people were killed in the riots, which pitted members of Xinjiang's indigenous ethnic Uighur community against ethnic Han Chinese, the country's dominant ethnic group.
Six more to die over China riots by Aljazeera.net
Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer Tuesday said a Chinese court's decision to sentence six Uighurs to death over July unrest would serve only to "further enrage" her people.
Kadeer: China death sentences will 'enrage' Uighurs by AFP / AFP Asian Edition
Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer Tuesday said a Chinese court's decision to sentence six Uighurs to death over July unrest would serve only to "further enrage" her people.
Kadeer: China death sentences will 'enrage' Uighurs by AFP / AFP Global Edition
 
 
 
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