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Uighur

adj, name, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of Uyghur. alt-of, alternative, not-comparable

    "[...]based on the Uighur alphabet, is still in use among the Mongols today."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of Uyghur. alt-of, alternative
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of Uyghur. alt-of, alternative

    "The tiny Uighur settlement of Tongguzbasti, 170km (102 miles) north of Keriya beside the rapidly diminishing Keriya Dariya, must rank as one of the most remote places in Xinjiang. It is said to stand on the ruins of the lost city of Keladun, and artefacts dating from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 222) have been found here. Today about 100 families of Keriya Uighur live here in almost complete isolation."

  2. 2
    the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language wordnet
  3. 3
    the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China wordnet
  4. 4
    a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas wordnet

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