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Ethnic Exchanges and Language Contact in Turpan: Focusing on Documents Unearthed in Turpan

Cao Lihua

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This book focuses on language contact, using documents unearthed in Turpan, supplemented by handed down documents and unearthed cultural relics, and using methods of history, philology, and linguistics. On the one hand, it examines the mutual borrowing and influence of Chinese and surrounding languages ​​from a linguistic perspective; on the other hand, it analyzes the ethnic relations and characteristics reflected by language from an ethnological perspective. In short, when examining language contact in the historical context of ethnic exchanges, and looking back at history from the perspective of language contact, grand narratives and detailed research are combined to complement each other.