Alar (simplified Chinese: 阿拉尔; traditional Chinese: 阿拉爾; Pinyin: Ālā'ěr; Uyghur: ئارال شەھرى / Aral Xəhri)[1] is a sub-prefecture-level city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in the People's Republic of China. Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Pinyin is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin, where pin means spell and yin means sound. The most common variant of pinyin in use is called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Hà nyÇ PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme... Uyghur (â//, or â//)[1] is a Turkic language spoken by the Uyghur people in Xinjiang (also called East Turkestan or Uyghuristan), formerly also âSinkiangâ and âChinese Turkestan,â a Central Asian region administered by China. ... A sub-prefecture-level city (副地級市), or vice-prefecture-level city, is an administrative division of China. ... Xinjiang (Chinese: 新疆; pinyin: Xīnjiāng; Wade-Giles: Hsin1-chiang1; Postal Pinyin: Sinkiang; literal meaning: New Frontier; Uyghur: شينجاڭ) Uyghurs Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), sometimes known as Chinese Turkestan, Eastern Turkestan (Turkestan also spelt Turkistan...
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Footnotes
^ The official spelling is Aral, according to the Zhōngguó dìmínglù 中国地名录 (Beijing, Zhōngguó dìtú chūbǎnshè 中国地图出版社 1997); ISBN 7-5031-1718-4; p. 1, 299. Often misspelled as "Alar".