19 Facts About Uyghur people

The Turkic Uyghur people used "Musulman", which means "Muslim", to describe themselves.

Dr Laura J Newby says the sedentary Altishahri Turkic Uyghur people considered themselves separate from other Turkic Muslims since at least the 19th century.

Name "Uyghur people" reappeared after the Soviet Union took the 9th-century ethnonym from the Uyghur people Khaganate, then reapplied it to all non-nomadic Turkic Muslims of Xinjiang.

In current usage, Uyghur people refers to settled Turkic-speaking urban dwellers and farmers of the Tarim Basin and Ili who follow traditional Central Asian sedentary practices, as distinguished from nomadic Turkic populations in Central Asia.

The use of the term Uyghur led to anachronisms when describing the history of the people.

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Linguist and ethnographer S Robert Ramsey argues for inclusion of both the Eastern and Western Yugur and the Salar as sub-groups of the Uyghur based on similar historical roots for the Yugur and on perceived linguistic similarities for the Salar.

Study of Uyghur people males living in southern Xinjiang used high-resolution 26 Y-STR loci system high-resolution to infer the genetic relationships between the Uyghur people population and European and Asian populations.

Uyghur people'story of the Uyghur people, as with the ethnic origin of the people, is a matter of contention.

The name "Uyghur people" reappeared after the Soviet Union took the 9th-century ethnonym from the Uyghur people Khaganate, then reapplied it to all non-nomadic Turkic Muslims of Xinjiang.

Some Uyghur people nationalists claimed descent from the Xiongnu, but the view is contested by modern Chinese scholars.

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

Uyghur people turned the Second East Turkistan Republic into the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, and appointed Saifuddin Azizi as the region's first Communist Party governor.

Uyghur people identity remains fragmented, as some support a Pan-Islamic vision, exemplified by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, while others support a Pan-Turkic vision, such as the East Turkestan Liberation Organization.

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

The Turkic Uyghur people who moved into the region in the 9th century brought with them their languages, which slowly supplanted the original tongues of the local inhabitants.

Uyghur people noted that the people of Khotan did not know Turkic well and had their own language and script .

The Uyghur people language is an agglutinative language and has a subject-object-verb word order.

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

Uyghur people men carry such knives as part of their culture to demonstrate the masculinity of the wearer, but it has led to ethnic tension.