| Taranchi | |||||||||
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 "The chief Taranchi mosque in Kuldja" (now Yining), from Henry Lansdell's 1885 book describing his visit there in 1882 | |||||||||
| Uyghur name | |||||||||
| Uyghur | تارانچى | ||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 塔蘭奇 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 塔兰奇 | ||||||||
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Taranchi is a term denoting the Turkic-speaking, Muslim, sedentary population living in oases around the Tarim Basin in today's Xinjiang, China, whose native language is Turkic Karluk and whose ancestral heritages include Tocharians, Iranic peoples such as Sakas and Sogdians, and the later Turkic peoples such as the Uyghurs, Karluks, Yaghmas, Chigils, Basmyls, Tuhsis and lastly, the Mongolic tribes of the Chagatai Khanate.