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Definition of Eastern Turki
1. Noun. A Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
Generic synonyms: Turki, Turkic, Turkic Language, Turko-tatar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eastern Turki
Literary usage of Eastern Turki
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Kashgar and by Robert Shaw (1878)
"The seeming problem results from the degree to which forms, clear enough in
Eastern Turki, have become corrupted and obscured in Western Turkish. ..."
2. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1844)
"... has long been considered as one of the principal dialects of the Turkish speech.
It is distinguished from the eastern Turki or the ..."
3. Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja by Eugene Schuyler, Vasilīĭ Vasilʹevich Grigorʹev (1876)
"... and the cities of Eastern Turki- stan; but it is necessary to mention that
with the Kirghiz themselves a barter traffic arose on the lines which had ..."
4. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"Afghanistan, Nepal, Eastern Turki- stan, Tibet, Mongolia, Manchuria, China, Japan,
the Eastern Archipelago, Siam, Burma. Ceylon and India, at one time or ..."
5. A General Catalogue of Books Offered to the Public at the Affixed Prices by by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) (1887)
"... 10* AH 1137-38 33877 ^r\^^ Zja£? '• Minor Works, in prose and verso, in,
Persian, 8vo. plain, MS. bound, 5* Qd AH 1213 III. TURKISH. 1. Eastern Turki. ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"... plateau—which lies between Eastern Turki- stan and Ladak—rising to the enormous
altitude of 17600 feet above the sea-level. This plateau abuts against ..."
7. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"... I may mention the study of Eastern Turki, the language of Chinese Turkestan.
I was able to acquire a fair practical knowledge of it while still in India ..."