A subfamily of Altaic languages.
1Yet as many had come from the Turkic tribes in the north.
2The Uighurs are a Turkic-language speaking group from China's western Xinjiang region.
3Eleven percent of the population speak Turkic languages, primarily Uzbek and Turkmen.
4The Uighur are a Turkic-language speaking group that calls China's western Xinjian region home.
5The Uighurs are a Turkic-language speaking group that calls China's western Xinjiang region home.
6Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking Muslim people native to China's far western region of Xinjiang.
7The region is populated by an ethnic minority Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking largely Muslim people.
8The region is populated by the ethnic minority Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking largely Muslim people.
9Many Uighurs, a Muslim Turkic people, resent the growing Han presence in the region.
10The riots made anything to do with Uighurs, a Muslim, Turkic speaking people, politically sensitive.
11The Islamic civilization had Arab, Turkic and Malay subdivisions.
12The people native to the region are Turkic, with the main ethnic group being the Uighurs.
13Moscow has a defence alliance with Armenia, while Ankara backs its ethnic Turkic kin in Azerbaijan.
14Moscow has a defense alliance with Armenia, while Ankara backs its ethnic Turkic kin in Azerbaijan.
15Central Asian peoples, mostly Turkic, are not part of the ethnic or cultural majority in either country.
16Yet even in this village, dominated by people from the Kumyk Turkic-speaking ethnic minority, some appear sympathetic.