Xilingol
English
Etymology
From Mongolian ᠰᠢᠯᠢ
ᠶᠢᠨ
ᠭᠣᠣᠯ (sili yin ɣool).
Proper noun
Xilingol
- A league in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
- 2020 August 31, Amy Qin, “Curbs on Mongolian Language Teaching Prompt Large Protests in China”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 August 2020, Asia Pacific[2]:
- Bateer, 44, a herdsman in the Xilingol Prefecture of Inner Mongolia, said in a telephone interview that he feared that, under the new education policy, future generations of Mongolians would forget their culture and their grasslands heritage.
Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Xilinguole