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(an Eastern Iranian people), and;
* Victor Mair noted the word kaelum in the Tocharian languages of the Tarim Basin, meaning "sky" or "heaven" (and therefore related distantly to the Latin caelum) which may have been the basis of qilian.According to a Tang Dynasty commentator on the Shiji, qilian was a Xiongnu word for "sky" - although Xiongnu may also have borrowed

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