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... Afghanistan . ETHNOGRAPHY AND EARLY TRIBAL HISTORY All Mongols recognize their kinship to each other in vary- ing degrees through legend , written history , and especially language . Dialects vary from east to west more than from north ...
... Afghanistan . ETHNOGRAPHY AND EARLY TRIBAL HISTORY All Mongols recognize their kinship to each other in vary- ing degrees through legend , written history , and especially language . Dialects vary from east to west more than from north ...
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... Afghanistan and Turkestan on its way to China and Japan . The skin - bellied lute , san - hsien , can be traced in China only to the 13th century ; from there it was taken to the Ryukyu Islands and thence to Japan ( mid - 16th century ) ...
... Afghanistan and Turkestan on its way to China and Japan . The skin - bellied lute , san - hsien , can be traced in China only to the 13th century ; from there it was taken to the Ryukyu Islands and thence to Japan ( mid - 16th century ) ...
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