Turkestan speech sounds like Kazan Tatar
Editorial contextWhile in Peking, Timkovsky talked through an interpreter with men from Little Bucharia (the Tarim basin towns) and noticed that their language was very like that of the Kazan Tatars, 'who are also of Turkish origin'. Here 'Tartar' means the Turkic-speaking Muslims of the Volga, a different people entirely from the Mongols he had just crossed.
In the conversations I had in China, through the medium of an interpreter, with natives of Little Bucharia who had come to Peking, I observed that their language much resembles that of the Tartars of Kasan, who are also of Turkish origin.
George Timkowski (English translation, 1827)
About Turkic peoples of Eastern Turkestan; Kazan Tatars
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