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UIGHUR [2 records]

Record 1 2021-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
DEF

[A member of] a Turkic people living in the areas of Central Asia ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples
DEF

[Membre de la] population turque de l'Asie centrale.

Spanish

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Record 2 1996-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A Turkic language spoken by the Uigurs in the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region of northwestern China and in the Uzbek S.S.R. and neighbouring areas of the former Soviet Union.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue turque parlée en Chine Xinjiang (Sin-kiang, Hsin-kiang) et en République d'Ouzbékistan (Uzbekistan, Ouzbékie), une des onze républiques de la C.É.I. L'Ouïgour moderne est classé avec l'ouzbek dans le groupe sud-est des langues turques. C'est le descendant direct du djaghataï. Écrit à l'origine en caractères arabes, il a adopté en ex-URSS l'alphabet latin en 1930 et le cyrillique en 1947. En Chine, l'alphabet arabe continue à être utilisé.

Spanish

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