Uighurn.adj.

1785 Archaeologia 7 227 Perhaps it was the Uigures or Igureans, from whom the great founder of the Mongol monarchy first received letters and the art of writing.

1844 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) IV. 311 The celebrated Turkish race of the Ouigours.

1874 F. E. Burnett tr. Vambéry Central Asia 132 The Uigurs have played a very remarkable part in the history of the civilisation of central Asia.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 658/2 When we speak of Uigurs and Tatars, we mean tribes who style themselves Turks and really are such.

1966 D. Wilson Quarter of Mankind vii. 89 Unlike the Tibetans, Mongols and Uighurs, these are relatively primitive people.

1969 Listener 3 July 6/2 There are millions of people living in the border areas, who speak neither Russian nor Chinese. They're Khazaks, Uzbeks, Uighurs, Tartars, many of them still leading nomadic lives, herdsmen born to the saddle.

1977 Times 4 July 5/4 The eight to ten million inhabitants of Sinkiang, the majority of whom are Uighurs and Kazakhs.

1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 406/1 The Uighur was originally written with fourteen, and afterwards with sixteen letters, which..there is reason to believe..have been invented by the Uighurs themselves.

1862 R. G. Latham Elements Compar. Philol. 102 Theoretically, the main differences between the Tshagatai and Uighur are considerable.

1747 New Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. IV. ii. iv. 457/2 He says, they are the same with the Wigûr, Oygûr, or Jugur Characters.

1844 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) IV. 312 The Ouigour dialect..preserves the true characteristics and analogies of an oriental Tartarian idiom.

1844 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) IV. 313 He was the founder of the Ouigour empire.

1862 R. G. Latham Elements Compar. Philol. 100 The Uighur Turks were the first of their stock to use an alphabet.

1862 R. G. Latham Elements Compar. Philol. 102 A Uighur alphabet makes a Uighur work.

1870 Howorth in Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. 2 87 The remains of the Ouigour literature.

1773 Archaeologia 2 228 The Oigurian or Uigurean alphabet of 14 characters.

1844 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) IV. 316 As the Ouigourian and Mongolian alphabets have the same origin and form.

1874 F. E. Burnett tr. Vambéry Central Asia 131 The Uigurian race of the Turks.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 662/1 But the oldest Turkish alphabet, the Uigurian, is a direct transformation of the Syriac.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 2 The unassimilated Uiguric kilur-im answers to the Osmanli kilur-um.