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Sinkiang

name

Meaning

  1. Synonym of Xinjiang: A Uyghur autonomous region of China, located in the sparsely populated northwest.

Etymology / origin

From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 新疆 (Xīnjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

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