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TURKI

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 468 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURKI , strictly speaking an Arabic or

Persian adjective formed from Turk, used by
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European writers in two rather different senses . (1) It is applied to tribes or
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languages which are
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Turkish as opposed to
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Aryan, Semitic, &c . (2) It is used as the
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special designation of the tribes and languages of Kashgaria and Eastern Turkestan .

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