Ui·gur also Ui·ghur (w  g r)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·gu ri·an (-gr- n), Ui·guric (-gr k) adj. |
Uigur, Uighur [ˈwiːgʊə]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -gur, -gurs a member of a Mongoloid people of NW China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family
Uigurian , Uighurian, Uiguric, Uighuric adj
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| Noun | 1. | Uigur - a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas 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. | Uigur - the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China | |
| 3. | Uigur - the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language script - a particular orthography or writing system |
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