Sentence examples for uyghur from inspiring English sources
'Uyghur' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to the Turkic speaking people who live mostly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in western China. Example: Many Uyghur people and their families are facing persecution in China.
noun
A member of this ethnic group.
The dynasty's founder, Eretna, was an officer of Uighur (Uyghur) origin in the service of Demirtaş, the Il-Khanid governor of Anatolia, who revolted (1326) against the Il-Khanid ruler Abū Saʿıd and escaped to Egypt.
A young Uyghur in Beijing is tortured on the pretense of having failed to pay for a haircut; a peasant on a bicycle is killed by a cargo truck careering down a mountain.
Uighur, Chinese (Pinyin) Weiwu'er, also spelled Uygur or Uyghur, a Turkic-speaking people of interior Asia.
In that case, six Uyghur separatists were overpowered and the plane landed safely.
It's rare for Isis's promotional material to appear in Mandarin - most of the group's propaganda instead targets the Turkic-speaking, mostly Muslim Uyghur minority in China.
An Uyghur separatist movement seeks to establish an independent state in the group's homeland in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang.
In Hunan, the spice finds its way into "strange-flavour" combinations, Uyghur-influenced barbecues and a limited number of restaurant dishes.
Yet the sensitivity to questions of ethnicity in China, especially with regard to the shǎoshù mínzú 少数民族 ("ethnic / national minorities"), e.g., Uyghurs, Tibetans, and scores of others, caused Zhang to take umbrage over something that the Vice President never intended.I leave it to Mr Mair and the Chinese-speaking commenters to discuss the ins and outs of mínzú.
However, Mandarin is becoming the dominant language for younger Uyghurs.
"Because, under the pretext of 'security', the Chinese leaders are preparing themselves to detain, torture and even execute hundreds of Uyghurs, Tibetans and Chinese dissidents during the Olympic games in 2008".
The Beijing games would be a nightmare for thousands of Uyghurs, Tibetans and Chinese dissidents, he said.
