Altay

English Altay Prefecture thumb|Altay (Belukha mountain) thumb|Map including Altay (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1989) Alternative forms en Altai Etymology en kk التاي Altay and en ug ئالتاي Altay 1, from en xgn, from en otk 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣:𐰖𐰃𐱁 altun yïš Golden Mountain. Pronunciation ǎlʹtīʹ Proper noun en Altai. en 1982 The Desert Realm https://archive.org/details/desertrealmlands00nati_0/ w:National Geographic Society 0-87044-331-3 80-7568 8281437 8343363M 221 https://archive.org/details/desertrealmlands00nati_0/page/221/ The Altay Mountains to the north prevent rain clouds from reaching the Gurbantünggüt Desert, which fills the center of the Junggar Basin in China's northwest corner. en prefecture in northern ar/Xinjiang c/China. en 1989 zh:马寅<t:Ma Yin> zh:中国少数民族<t:China's Minority Nationalities> https://archive.org/details/chinasminorityna0000unse/ Beijing w:Foreign Languages Press 0-8351-1952-1 924796533 161 https://archive.org/details/chinasminorityna0000unse/page/161/ The Kazaks were struggling in poverty before liberation. Some 2,000 people died of starvation in the Altay Prefecture from 1944 to 1945, and 40 per cent of the Kazak herdsmen in Altay County alone were homeless in 1946. en 2014 zh:李欣凭<t:Li Xinping> zh:活力新疆<t:Modern Xinjiang> https://archive.org/details/modernxinjianghu0000lixi/ Beijing China Intercontinental Press (zh 五洲传播出版社) 978-7-5085-2863-2 913453080 201 https://archive.org/details/modernxinjianghu0000lixi/page/201/ In January 2010, a blizzard of such force which had not occurred in six decades attacked the Altay Prefecture, and the minimum temperature dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius. en August 27, 2015 Liu Xinlian The Joy of Work w:Beijing Review https://archive.org/details/Beijing_Review_August_27_2015/ 58 35 1000-9140 264070611 32 https://archive.org/details/Beijing_Review_August_27_2015/page/n33/ When Saliye Hobay, a Kazak ethnic woman born in Altay Prefecture in the north of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was laid off in 2002 after the clothing factory in which she had worked for six years went bankrupt, she fell into momentary depression. en February 5, 2022 Adam Kilgore; Christian Shepherd A cauldron-lighting flashpoint one night, Dinigeer Yilamujiang was a skier the next day w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20220205132618/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2022/02/05/dinigeer-yilamujiang-cauldron-olympic-skiing/ 0190-8286 2269358 Olympics https://archive.is/BSEhU Yilamujiang grew up in Altay, a prefecture bordering Mongolia in far northwest Xinjiang. Chinese officials consider the region the cradle of Alpine sport, after cave paintings of hunters on skis were dated at 10,000 years old. Locals still use hand-carved wooden skis covered in a horsehide, although mostly now for the benefit of tourists. en 09 February 2022 Beijing sells troubled Xinjiang as a winter sports paradise https://web.archive.org/web/20220209033942/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220209-beijing-sells-troubled-xinjiang-as-a-winter-sports-paradise 09 February 2022 w:France 24 Torchbearer Dinigeer Yilamujiang hails from the mountainous terrain of Xinjiang's Altay prefecture. en en county-level city prefecture/Altay in far northern ar/Xinjiang c/China. Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese en A'ertai, en A-erh-t'ai Derived terms en Altaic Translations Altay, Xinjiang, China Chinese: Dungan: dng Аләтэ, dng اَلْتَىْ Mandarin: cmn 阿勒泰 Kazakh: Arabic: kk التلي Cyrillic: kk Алтай Mongolian: Classical Mongolian: mn ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠢ Cyrillic: mn Алтай Polish: pl Ałtaj m-in Russian: ru Алта́й m Uyghur: ug ئالتاي Noun p en Altai. See also en Altai Republic, en Altay Republic en Altai Krai, en Altay Kray Further reading en 2008 Altay Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 100 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/100/ 2 Anagrams en aalty Tayla Yalta en Asia Azerbaijani Алтај آلتای Pronunciation Proper noun the en Altay mountain range az male Declension a c az Mountains Turkish Etymology tr :inh ota:آلتای<tr:Altay> + 1 Proper noun the en Altay (mountain range) tr Mountains tr male