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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 See also:

Persian See also:

ADJECTIVE (from the Lat. adjectives, added)

adjective formed from Turk, used by See also:

EUROPEAN

European writers in two rather different senses . (1) It is applied to tribes or See also:

LANGUAGES

languages which are See also:

TURKISH

Turkish as opposed to See also:

ARYAN

Aryan, Semitic, &c . (2) It is used as the See also:

SPECIAL

special designation of the tribes and languages of Kashgaria and Eastern See also:

Turkestan .

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