Word: uighur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...born Orkache (pronounced Wu-er-kai-she as transliterated into Chinese) Dawlat in Beijing on Feb. 17, 1968, a native Uighur, in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, when an aging Mao Zedong fomented social unrest in the name of class struggle. A family portrait shows Wuer, age 1, holding up a copy of Mao's Little Red Book. Throughout the rigors of the period, his father remained a loyal member of the party who spent years translating the works of Marx, Lenin and Mao from Chinese into Uighur. When thousands of China's intellectuals were forced...
Wuer Kaixi. 21. A Uighur with wavy black hair, big round eyes, high cheekbones. Shown last week on Chinese television on secret videotape from a Beijing hotel that falsely suggested he was eating when he was on a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square. Wanted by the Chinese government. His crime: he was a leader of the prodemocracy movement...
...precocious child who read insatiably, Wuer often visited his grandparents in Xinjiang, near the Soviet border, to learn Uighur. But he spent most of his boyhood and school years in Beijing in an apartment adorned by a portrait of Mao put there by his father...
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations offers nine classes in Akkadian. The only Akkadian I have ever heard of is the instrument played at Italian weddings. The Turkic department offers two courses in Elementary Uzbek, and a course in both Old or Modern Uighur. I don't know what Uzbek is, and I can't even pronounce Uighur...
None of these courses have prerequisites, although for Modern Uighur, "Knowledge of any Turkish language [is] desirable." And for Old Uighur, "Knowledge of any Turkic Language is desirable." What's the difference between Turkish and Turkic? And under which category does Uzbek fall...