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Re:Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinji... by mike_h on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:04AM (#24294383)
He says he’s talking about the written language on signs.
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Re:Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinji... by yorwba on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:15AM (#24294485)
The written language should be Standard Mandarin in combination with one or more of Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Xibe etc. depending on the composition of the local population. They're written in scripts related to the Arabic script, but the languages themselves are very different.
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