uighur in English

adjective

1

relating to the Uighur or their language.

The reforms of the Kazak and Uygur writing systems are examples of adoption of the Plan under political pressure against the will of the two language communities.

noun

1

a member of a people of northwestern China, particularly the Xinjiang region, and adjoining areas.

Delegates, including Tibetans, Cantonese speakers from Hong Kong and Macao, and Turkic Uighurs from Xinjiang in the remote northwest, struggle to make themselves understood in Mandarin.

2

the Turkic language of the Uighur.

Khalkha Mongolian may be written in traditional Uighur or Cyrillic script.

Use "uighur" in a sentence

1. 22 hours ago · UK Braced for Chinese retaliation over Uighur abuse sanctions

2. He said even the Uighur kebab sellers , who unconnected to the factory group, have moved out.

3. Courses at the Abaya National Teacher Training University are taught in Uighur, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Korean, Chinese and German

4. Courses at the Abaya National Teacher Training University are taught in Uighur, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Korean, Chinese and German.

5. China has forcibly separated Uighur families by taking young children into state orphanages, according to human rights group Amnesty International

6. In a new report, Amnesty has called on China to release all Uighur children being held in orphanages without the consent of their families

7. Uighur and Chinese transcriptions from the period of the Mongol Empire support the forms Küsän/Güsän and Kuxian/Quxian respectively, rather than Küshän or Kushan.

8. Because Iburai Taishi (also known as Ibrahim), an Uighur adventurer or an Oirat/Kharchin warlord and Mandulai dominated the area, the three Tumens were seeking a more agreeable arrangement.

9. Ablet Abdureshit (Uighur: ئابلەت ئابدۇرىشىت, romanized: Ablet Abdureshit; Chinese: 阿不来提·阿不都热西提; pinyin: Ābùláití Ābùdūrèxītí; born March 1942) was the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003