Uygur

The Uyghur (also spelled Uygur, Uighur, Uigur; Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر; ; ; ) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. Today Uyghurs live primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known by its controversial name East Turkistan or Uyghurstan). There are also existing Uyghur communities in Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Germany and Turkey and a smaller one in Taoyuan County of Hunan province in south-central China.
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Noun
1. a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
(synonym) Uighur, Uigur
(hypernym) Turki
(member-holonym) Xinjiang, Sinkiang, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
2. the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur people in extreme northwestern China
(synonym) Uighur, Uigur
(hypernym) Turki, Turkic, Turko-Tatar, Turkic language
3. the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
(synonym) Uighur, Uigur
(hypernym) script

n. uigur