Arabic is also widely used, sometimes as an abjad ( as with Urdu and Persian ) and sometimes as a complete alphabet ( as with Kurdish and Uyghur ).

It is a product of the Chinese Islamic cuisine of the Uyghur ( 维吾尔 ) people and other Chinese Muslims.

The Kuomintang is anti separatist, and during its rule on mainland China, it crushed Uyghur and Tibetan separatist uprisings.

Kashmir ( Balti, Gojri, Poonchi / Chibhali, Dogri: कश ् म ी र ; Kashmiri: क ॅ श ी र, ک ٔ ش ِ یر ; Ladakhi: ཀཤམ ི ར ; Uyghur: ; Shina: کشمیر ) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent.

The British Library's Stein collection of Chinese, Tibetan and Tangut manuscripts, Prakrit wooden tablets, and documents in Khotanese, Uyghur, Sogdian and Eastern Turkic is the result of his travels through central Asia during the 1920s and 1930s.

In China, where stories of him are well known, he is known by the various transliterations from his Uyghur name, 阿凡提 ( Āfántí ) and 阿方提 ( Āfāngtí ).

If a language uses multiple writing systems, it may have distinct orthographies, as is the case with Kurdish, Uyghur, Serbian, Inuktitut and Turkish.

Tocharian or Tokharian ( or ) is an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family, formerly spoken in oases on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin ( now part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China ).

The meaning of the term Uyghur is unclear.

The earliest record of an Uyghur tribe is from the Northern Wei Dynasty ( 386-534 AD ).

Historians generally agree that the adoption of the term " Uyghur " is based on a decision from a 1921 conference in Tashkent, which was attended by Turkic Muslims from the Tarim Basin ( Xinjiang ).

According to Dru Gladney, the modern Uyghur nationality is not directly descended from the old Uyghur Khaganate, in spite of the name.

Scholars like Joana Breidenbach say that the Yugur's culture, language, and religion are closer to the original culture of the original Uyghur Karakorum state than is the culture of the modern Uyghur people of Xinjiang.

As a result the majority of tribal groups formerly under Uyghur control migrated to what is now northwestern China, especially to the modern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region.

Jian is the predominant surname among the Uyghur in Changde, Hunan.

Uyghur food ( Uyghur Yemekliri ) is characterized by mutton, beef, camel, chicken, goose, carrots, tomatoes, onions, eggplant, celery, various dairy foods, and fruits.

Xurpa is lamb soup ( Uyghur: شۇرپا ).

* Second East Turkestan Republic ( 1944 – 1949 )-The Second East Turkestan Republic, usually known simply as the East Turkistan Republic ( ETR ), was a short-lived Soviet-backed separatist republic which existed in the 1940s in what is now the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

Today, Kazakh is written in Cyrillic in Kazakhstan and Mongolia, while the more than one million Kazakh-speakers in China use an Arabic-derived alphabet similar to that used to write Uyghur.

Yüniç Xäbib Fazılcan ulı ( pronounced in Uyghur ; 1905 – 1945 ) was a politician, pedagogue, and journalist in the Xinjiang province of western China.

After the decline of the Ilkhanate from 1335 – 1353, the Mongol Empire's legacy in the region was the Uyghur Eretna Dynasty that was overthrown by Kadi Burhan al-Din in 1381.

Masud Sabri, a Uyghur was appointed as Governor of Xinjiang by the Kuomintang, as was the Tatar Burhan Shahidi and the Uyghur Yulbars Khan.

It was adopted by the Uyghur ruler Khagan Boku Tekin ( AD 759 – 780 ) in 763, and remained the state religion for about a century before the collapse of the Uyghur empire in 840.

It was later used by the Uyghur Empire.

There, " Uyghur " was chosen by them as the name of their own ethnic group, although the delegates noted that the modern groups referred to a " Uyghur " were distinct from the old Uyghur Khaganate.

Another ethnic group, the Buddhist Yugur of Gansu, by contrast, have consistently been called by themselves and others the " Yellow Uyghur " ( Säriq Uyghur ).

After the collapse of the Uyghur Khaganate in AD 840, Uyghur resettled from Mongolia to the Tarim Basin, assimilating the Indo-European population, which had previously been driven out of the region by the Xiongnu.

In AD 840, following a famine and civil war, the Uyghur Khaganate was overrun by the Kirghiz, another Turkic people.

Uyghur king from Turfan region attended by servants.

They are descended from a Uyghur leader, Hala Bashi, from Turpan, sent to Hunan by the Ming Emperor in the 14th century, to crush the Miao rebels during the Miao Rebellions ( Ming Dynasty ).

The Uyghur troops led by Hala were ordered by the Ming Emperor to crush Miao rebellions and were given titles by him.

The name is possibly originated from Uyghur word Il, means hook in English, resembling the river's geographical shape.

Uyghurlar ( in English: The Uyghurs ) is a book by poet Turghun Almas on the history of the " 6, 000 year history " of the Uyghur ethnic group of the Xinjiang region of China.

More than a million speakers reside in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Some speakers write using the Cyrillic script, while others write using the Uyghur script, as that is the language they have used when they went to school.

* Uyghur language: 8-10 million speakers, regional status in Xinjiang

Instead, Uzbek and Uyghur became the two major divisions among speakers of modern variants of the Chagatai language.

He promoted the Uyghur Yulbars Khan to Governor during the Kuomintang Islamic Insurgency in China ( 1950 – 1958 ) for resisting the Communists, even though the government had already evacuated to Taiwan.

The Abbasid army ( 200, 000 Muslim troops according to Chinese estimates, though these numbers may be greatly exaggerated ) which included contingents from their Tibetan and Uyghur allies met the combined army of 10, 000 Tang Chinese and 20, 000 Karluks mercenary ( Arab records put the Chinese forces at 100, 000 which also may be greatly exaggerated ).

Beijing immediately accused the Soviets of subverting the Uyghur population, a charge that was later supported by some Chinese historiography, though never independently verified.

It was written for the Mongol royal family some time after Genghis Khan's death in AD 1227, by an anonymous author and probably originally in the Uyghur script, though the surviving texts all derive from transcriptions or translations into Chinese characters dating from the end of the 14th century, compiled by the Ming Dynasty under the name The Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty ().

It was not confined to the ethnic Uyghur population alone ; Kazaks, Kyrgyz, Han Chinese and Hui commanders all joined in revolt against Jin's rule, though they would occasionally break to fight one another.