Xilingol

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Etymology

From Mongolian ᠰᠢᠯᠢ
ᠶᠢᠨ
ᠭᠣᠣᠯ
(sili yin ɣool).

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Xilingol

  1. 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.

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