NOUN
- a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
- the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
- the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
How To Use Uighur In A Sentence
- Zunun Kadir, the famous writer, playwright and fabulist, was the founder and the pioneer of the contemporary Uighur literature.
- The Uighur, originally called Ouigour, sprang from the ancient tribe Teli.
- Urumqi in lockdown after Uighurs riot (The Australian) Uighur riots in Urumqi
- The posters emphasised that the judges who had pronounced the death sentences were themselves Uighurs. Times, Sunday Times
- The Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas put it bluntly on the micro-blogging site, Twitter -- where thousands follow him -- when he asked why no one was paying attention to the Uighur "intifada," the Arabic word for uprising that is usually associated with Palestinians fighting back against Israeli occupation. Mona Eltahawy: If Only the Uighurs Were Buddhist and China Was Israel
- The Chinese histories are the single most important source of information for writing a dated narrative of Uighur history.
- China has accused the men, who are from the western Xinjiang province, of being separatists and has demanded their return. The Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking Chinese Muslim minority.
- Facing many of the same problems Tibetans have due to their religious views such as religious restrictions, forced abortions, imprisonment and execution, the Uyghurs '(also spelled as Uygur, Uigur, Uighur) plight isn't as visible to westerners as the Buddhist's situation. Global Voices in English » The Uyghurs: Persecuted Muslim Minority in NorthWest China
- This twisted notion that we would only observe our own laws, our own Constitution, our own Enlightenment Age ideals-if there was something in it for us, if we could somehow profit by it - appalls me. brought to mind something in a talk given by Sabine Willet (one of the attys for the Uighur and a commerical bankruptucy lawyer who felt compelled by the injustice to do something - while DOJ litigators felt compelled to lie to courts and continue to block habeas requests for men who their own files showed were innocent and had been abused and tortured bc of governmental policy that * no one leaves GITMO innocent*) Firedoglake
- ALMATY (Reuters) - Hundreds of Uighurs rallied in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty on Thursday to mourn those who died in violent clashes in the neighbouring Xinjiang region of Agriculture, checks a container holding tamarisk plants and yellow-striped Diorhabdas in an WN.com - Articles related to Hartnett And Fellow Asian Heartthrobs Charm Pusan