Talk:Gurbantünggüt Desert

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Another anonymous editor has mentioned: ''Article Dzoosotoyn Elisen Desert appears to refer to the same thing as this article. French Wiki says the two terms are equivalent. Not sure if there is a standard English name.''

Any clarification is quite welcome, thank you. Teledildonix314 Talk ~  contributions  05:39, 6 February 2009 (UTC)


 * As of my basic understanding, "зоостой элсэн цөл" (zoostoi elsen tsöl) in modern Mongolian translates to "desert of sand with coins".
 * зоос (zoos) - coin/piece/money
 * зоостой (zoostoi) - with coin[s]
 * элс (els) - sand
 * элсэн (elsen) - [made] of sand
 * цөл (tsöl) - desert
 * Are there any historic mines in the region? The spelling difference to Dzoosotoyn Elisen may be attributed to sources transcribing from Mongolian script and/or a regional dialect.
 * Btw: Why is the Uighur name given in Cyrillic? That's probably the least used script of the region today. --Latebird (talk) 13:06, 20 August 2016 (UTC)


 * And the other name is evidently also from a Mongolic language – gurban tünggüt means something like 'three tünggü', only I can't find out what a tünggü is, and I don't have access to a dictionary of any Mongolic language. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 18:24, 14 June 2021 (UTC)