A Study Of The Place Name In "A Survey Of Geography And Figures Of The Western Region"

"A survey of Geography and Figures of the Western Region" is an ancient book related to Xinjiang and complied during Qianlong reign of Qing dynasty. The contents of this book is abundant, involving various knowledge of history, humanities, geography, language... etc., which provides many mateirals on study of the history, geography, language, race of Xinjiang and Central Asia.Some place names in "A survey of Geography and Figures of the Western Region " can be treated as the record and witness of changes of Xinjiang's natural environment, history geography, humanities, language, race, religion, cultural art. The place names of Xinjiang have regional characteristics of themselves .They were formed in the the development of the endless history, constituted from various languages, and then had been used over a long period of multiracial time. Their contents are abundant and their formations are diverse. Seeing from inguistics history and geography , this thesis mainly studies the names of "A survey of Geography and Figures of the Western Region" , providing study of the history and geography of Xinjiang the language variety and the race change with some theories references for the aftertime.There are five parts in the thesis:The first part, "A survey of Geography and Figures of the Western Region" 's general regulation of naming for the place names;The second part, Analysing the process and classification of the place names's formation by studying "A survey of Geography and Figures of the Western Region"; The third part, Analysing the language characteristics of the place names by studying "A survey...