Taranchi

Taranchi
"The chief Taranchi mosque in Kuldja" (now Yining), from Henry Lansdell's 1885 book describing his visit there in 1882
Uyghur name
Uyghur	تارانچى‎
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Taranchi Yengi Yeziⱪ Taranqi Siril Yëziqi Тaрaнчи
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	塔蘭奇
Simplified Chinese	塔兰奇
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Tǎlánqí Wade–Giles T'a3-lan2-ch'i2

Taranchi is a term denoting the Turkic-speaking, Muslim, sedentary population living in oases around the Tarim Basin in today's Xinjiang, China, whose native language is Turkic Karluk and whose ancestral heritages include Tocharians, Iranic peoples such as Sakas and Sogdians, and the later Turkic peoples such as the Uyghurs, Karluks, Yaghmas, Chigils, Basmyls, Tuhsis and lastly, the Mongolic tribes of the Chagatai Khanate.