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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a mainly agricultural Turkic people inhabiting the Xinjiang region in China.
  • noun The Turkic language of the Uighurs.

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  • proper noun Alternative form of Uyghur.

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

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Uighur.]

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