Tang China and the collapse of the Uighur Empire: a documentary historyArchived 2014-07-09 at the वेबैक मशीन, Michael Robert Drompp, BRILL, 2005, ISBN 978-90-04-14129-2, ... The language of the Uighurs in Mongolia was essentially identical to that of the Turks; both empires also used the same runiform script for their epigraphic monuments. Indeed, it has been suggested that the Uighur Empire should be considered simply a 'third Turk Empire' ...
Tang China and the collapse of the Uighur Empire: a documentary historyArchived 2014-07-09 at the वेबैक मशीन, Michael Robert Drompp, BRILL, 2005, ISBN 978-90-04-14129-2, ... The language of the Uighurs in Mongolia was essentially identical to that of the Turks; both empires also used the same runiform script for their epigraphic monuments. Indeed, it has been suggested that the Uighur Empire should be considered simply a 'third Turk Empire' ...