Kalmuck


[kal-muhk, kal-muhk] /ˈkæl mʌk, kælˈmʌk/

noun
1.
a member of any of a group of Buddhistic Mongol tribes of a region extending from western China to the valley of the lower Volga River.
2.
a Mongolian language used by the part of the Kalmuck people that was formerly powerful in northwest China, specifically in Dzungaria, and is now relocated northwest of the Caspian Sea.
/ˈkælmʌk/
noun
1.
(pl) -mucks, -muck, -myks, -myk. a member of a Mongoloid people of Buddhist tradition, who migrated from W China in the 17th century
2.
the language of this people, belonging to the Mongolic branch of the Altaic family

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