Taranchin.adj.
/təˈrɑːntʃi/ A. n.
a. (A member of) a people of mixed Turkoman and Iranian descent inhabiting the Ili basin region of Kazakhstan.
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b. The Turkic language of these people.
B. adj.
Of, pertaining to, or designating the Taranchi.
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1885 H. Lansdell Russian Central Asia I. xv. 206 The..Taranchis, of Turkish race..formerly lived in Kashgaria, and..after rebellion in 1756, were transported by their Chinese rulers to the Ili valley.
1885 H. Lansdell Russian Central Asia I. xv. 208 The house of a former Taranchi bek, occupied by his five-times married widow.
1889 G. N. Curzon Russia in Central Asia x. 410 Taranchis or Turki Mahometans.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 422/1 Taranchi or Taranji (‘labourer’ in Chinese) is the name given to those Sarts who were settled in the Kulja region by the Chinese government after the rising of 1758.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 469/2 The Taranchis, an agricultural tribe of the Ili basin, seem..to belong to this group.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 473/1 Radlov divides the Turkish languages..into four groups... (1) Eastern... (2) Western... (3) Central Asiatic: Jagatai, Taranji, &c.
1951 W. K. Matthews Langs. U.S.S.R. iv. 66 Taranchi (in Eastern Turkestan).
1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 441/1 The Taranchi or Ili Tatars now live in Semirechie and in Transcaspian territory after migrating from Sinkiang when Kuldja came under Chinese control.
1977 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin Classif. & Index World's Langs. 339 Uighur. D[ialect]s. Southern, including Aqsu, Kashgar-Yarkend.., Khotan-Kerya..; Northern, including Ili = Kulja = Taranchi.
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