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Singkiang
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English
Proper noun
en misspelling
en Sinkiang.
May 31, 1964 RED RIFT ECHOES IN CENTRAL ASIA; Sinkiang, in China, Hears Soviet Kazakhstan's Radio https://web.archive.org/web/20231022122341/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/31/archives/red-rift-echoes-in-central-asia-sinkiang-in-china-hears-soviet.html 22 October 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/31/archives/red-rift-echoes-in-central-asia-sinkiang-in-china-hears-soviet.html 8 Moscow's position in its quarrel with Peking is being echoed alose to the Chinese border I the native languages of most of the inhabitants of SingkiangSinkiang, China's Central Asian province known also as East Turkestan.Uigurs constitute about 75 per cent of the population of Sinkiang and Kazakhs about 10 per cent.
en 1977 September The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall Successfully Completed w:China Pictorial https://archive.org/details/ChinaPictorial/CP1977-09/ Peking China Pictorial 0009-4420 671845184 10 https://archive.org/details/ChinaPictorial/CP1977-09/page/n11/ Warm letters and precious gifts came pouring in to the construction site from all parts of the country. Among the gifts were saw-wort seeds gathered from the Tienshan Mountains by workers in SingkiangSinkiang, chingko barley from emancipated serfs in Tibet, earth from people in quake-stricken Tangshan who were rebuilding their homes, water and sand from the Taiwan Straits from P.L.A. men on the Fukien frontline, colour pebbles from Yuhuatai, Nanking, milky quartz from the Kunlun Mountains, camellias from Tali, Yunnan, azaleas from Kangting, Szechuan, earth from the Chingkang Mountains, Kiangsi, water from Nanniwan, Shensi, etc. They embodied the profound proletarian feelings of the people of all nationalities for Chairman Mao.
en 2011 Peter Iliyn Out of the Far Corners: An Epic Tale of Rejection, Grace, and Deliverance https://archive.org/details/outoffarcornerse0000iliy/ w:YWAM Publishing 978-157658545-0 682903046 210 https://archive.org/details/outoffarcornerse0000iliy/page/210/ Luba was born on November 26, 1958, in the SingkiangSinkiang province of China. Shortly after the birth of Luba’s younger brother, Alex, her family began the long journey to Shanghai, and eventually to Australia. Luba was two and a half years old as they approached the city of Lanzhou.
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Usage notes
This spelling demonstrates confusion between -n and -ng, which is also a common phenomenon in spoken Mandarin Chinese.
See also
en Xingjiang
Further reading
Singkiang