Kashgarn.
/ˈkɑːʃɡɑː/ 1. A language or dialect of the central Turkic or Turco-Tatar group of Altaic languages, spoken in Kashgar. Also attributive or as adj.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Altaic > [adjective] > Turkic > of specific Turkic languages
Nogai1589
Tartaresque1699
Chaghatai1798
Ghuzz1866
Kashgar1875
Oghuzian1880
Kazakh1886
Sart1898
Kipchak1953
Tuvinian1954
Oghuz1959
Tuvan1989
the mind > language > languages of the world > Altaic > [noun] > Turkic > Sart
Sart1900
Kashgar1954
1875 R. B. Shaw Sketch Turki Lang. p. xv An examination of the Yarkánd and Káshghar dialect accounts for them in another way.
1918 G. W. Hunter Examples Turki Dial. iii. 1 Under this section is included Kashgar Turki and Kirghese Turki as they have much in common... Kashgar Turki is spoken by the Sart..people of Chinese Turkestan.
1948 D. Diringer Alphabet 568 Kashgar Turkish, spoken between the T'ien Shan mountains and northern Tibet.
1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 113 Kashgar, an Asiatic language; member of the Central Turkic group of the Altaic sub-family of the Ural-Altaic family of languages.
2. The name of a city and district of Sinkiang-Uighur (formerly East Turkestan), used attributively or absol. to designate a type of Turkoman carpet.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > Oriental > Turkestan
Khotan1871
Kashgar1900
Turkoman carpet1901
Tekke Bokhara1911
Yarkand1913
Saryk1922
Turkoman1962
1900 J. K. Mumford Oriental Rugs (1901) 273 Kashgar rugs.
1931 A. U. Dilley Oriental Rugs & Carpets x. 224 Kashgar and Yarkand rugs..are attributed more or less arbitrarily.
1931 A. U. Dilley Oriental Rugs & Carpets pl. 69 (caption) Kashgar, Disc-Star-Seal Pattern.
1962 C. W. Jacobsen Oriental Rugs ii. 232 Kashgars are more like a Chinese rug than a Bokhara. None are available, and I have seen a few rugs that were called Kashgar but there is not enough definite information on these rugs... We seldom come across the name.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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