Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun uighur

3 senses of uighur

Sense 1
Uighur, Uigur, Uygur -- (a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas)
       => Turki -- (any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language)

Sense 2
Uighur, Uigur, Uygur -- (the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China)
       => Turki, Turkic, Turko-Tatar, Turkic language -- (a subfamily of Altaic languages)

Sense 3
Uighur, Uigur, Uygur -- (the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language)
       => script -- (a particular orthography or writing system)