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... Turfan area . The Tocharian A dialect , for which records exist , was probably a dead language , used for liturgical purposes ( like Latin of today ) . Tocharian is not closely related to other neighbouring Indo - European languages ...
... Turfan area . The Tocharian A dialect , for which records exist , was probably a dead language , used for liturgical purposes ( like Latin of today ) . Tocharian is not closely related to other neighbouring Indo - European languages ...
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... Turfan . T'u - lu - fan P'en - ti ( China ) : see Turfan Depression . Tulu language , of the Dravidian family , spoken in the southern part of the state of Mysore , India , by nearly 1,000,000 people . Although Tulu ( also ...
... Turfan . T'u - lu - fan P'en - ti ( China ) : see Turfan Depression . Tulu language , of the Dravidian family , spoken in the southern part of the state of Mysore , India , by nearly 1,000,000 people . Although Tulu ( also ...
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... Turfan , Western conventional for Chinese T'U - LU - FAN , Pin - yin romanization TU - LU - FAN , city in the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Re- gion ( tzu - chih - ch'u ) , China . Turfan is a county ( hsien ) , directly administered from ...
... Turfan , Western conventional for Chinese T'U - LU - FAN , Pin - yin romanization TU - LU - FAN , city in the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Re- gion ( tzu - chih - ch'u ) , China . Turfan is a county ( hsien ) , directly administered from ...
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