Kirghiz


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Synonyms for Kirghiz

a member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia

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the Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz

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In 1965-1970 and in 1984-1985 was Director General of State Opera and Ballet Theater and served as Culture Minister of Kirghiz SSR in 1985-1989.
The Bee printed the warning about The Kirghiz Prisoner on 7 August 1828; for discussions of Vel'skii, see issues from 3 July and 7 August of the same year.
The topics include Turkic: portrait of a language family, the new look at exceptional case markings in Turkish, conversational code switching in Turkish-Arabic bilingual talk, the structure of spoken Turkish: coordination and pragmatic markers, valency-changing and non-valency-changing derivations in passives and causatives in the Kirghiz language, and morphosyntactic changes in Uyghur since the 19th century.
In his first visit, 1922-23, Fox worked for the Friends Relief Mission in Samara helping with the famine but in the course of his duties spent five months living among the nomadic Kirghiz in Central Asia, procuring horses for impoverished farmers.
The core area includes Kashgar, Tumshuq, Atushi and Akto of Kizilsu Kirghiz of Xinjiang, and Corps Tumshuq; most of ICT, Punjab, and Sindh, and some areas of GB, KPK, and Balochistan.
In the current update, YouTube has added support for Punjabi, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kirghiz, Kazakh, Khmer, Mongolian, Lao, Macedonian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali among others.
Uyghur tawar Kazakh tawar Kirghiz tovar Uzbek tawar Tatar tawar Yellow Uyghur davar These forms are also reflected in Early Turkic tabar/tavar (Rasanen 1969).
These are partly the Turkish or Turko-mongol speaking communities (Uygur, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Bao'an, Dongxiang, Tatar, Ouzbek, Salar) living in the provinces of Northwest China (Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai), a small group of Farsi speakers, the Tadjik in Xinjiang, and partly a population of Chinese speaking Muslims, the Hui, who are scattered all over China.
W HILE half the team explored the ancient town of Kashgar on our first day in China, the drivers had to be present at the Chinese equivalent of the RTO with the vehicles in the neighbouring Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture.
Meme s'il conserve une existence materielle, nous ignorons s'il ne sera pas colonise par des Kirghiz ou des Turkmenes" (III, 1, 70).