Tang Chinese until 692 AD.

It is alleged and probably untrue that Qutayba ibn Muslim in 715 attacked Kashgar.

Kara Khanid Muslim Turks absorbed Kashgar during the Islamicisation and Turkicisation of Xinjiang. According to Mahmud al-Kashgari, within Kashgar's vicinity, some non-Turkic languages like the Kanchaki and Sogdian were still