Word: turkic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only 3,000,000 of Sinkiang's 8,000,000 people are Chinese, many of them recent settlers imported to strengthen Peking's ethnic hold. The others come from at least 14 minority nationalities. Some 4,000,000 are Uighurs, descendants of the 9th century Turkic invaders, and 600,000 are Kazakhs, Kirghiz and Tadjiks. Divided by customs and heritage, the various minorities nonetheless are united in their hate of their present masters, who first penetrated Sinkiang under the Han Dynasty...
...FRIEND, OBADIAH, by Brinton Turkic (Viking; $3.95). A sequel to Obadiah the Bold, the book shows the friendship between a sea gull and a young Quaker boy on the island of Nantucket. Splendid watercolor and pencil illustrations...
Named professor of Linguistics was Omeljan Pritsak, a Ukrainian-born expert on the Turkic and Altaic languages of the Near East and the Asian steppes...