| LC control no. | sh 85139324 |
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| LC classification | DS731.U4 China |
| Topical heading | Uighur (Turkic people) |
| Variant(s) | Taranchi (Turkic people) Uighurs Uigur (Turkic people) Uigurs Uyghur (Turkic people) Uyghurs Uygur (Turkic people) Weiwu'er (Turkic people) |
| See also | Ethnology--Asia, Central Turkic peoples |
| Found in | Web. 3 (Uighur or Uigur) Britannica Micro.: v. X: p. 238 (Uighurs, Turkic-speaking people of interior Asia who live for the most part in western China, in the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region ... others in Soviet Union) Voegelin lang.: p. 339 (Uighur) Ethnologue: p. 232 (Uigur) Russell-Smith, L. Uygur patronage in Dunhuang, 2005. Britannica online, Jan. 4, 2005: under Uighur (Chinese (pinyin) Uygur) Bovingdon, G. The Uyghurs, 2010: ECIP t.p. (Uyghurs) The Uyghur community, 2018: table of contents (Uyghurs) Britannica online, Feb. 20, 2019 (Uighur, Chinese (Pinyin) Weiwu'er, also spelled Uygur or Uyghur, a Turkic-speaking people of interior Asia. Uighurs live for the most part in northwestern China, in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang; a small number live in the Central Asian republics. There were some 10,000,000 Uighurs in China and at least a combined total of 300,000 in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan in the early 21st century) |
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