uighur has definitions from the field of linguistics
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[ noun ] a member of a Turkic people of Chinese Turkestan and neighboring areas (formerly of Mongolia and eastern Turkestan)

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uygur Uigur

Related terms

Turki sinkiang

2
[ noun ] (linguistics) the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language

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uygur uigur

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script

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[ noun ] (linguistics) the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur people in extreme northwestern China

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uygur Uigur

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Turki

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