Central Asia peoples of the vast region. Central Asia is sometimes referred to as Turkestan. There are several places that claim to be the geographic center of Asia, for example Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva in the Russian Federation, and a village north of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region of China. Central Asia is an extremely large region of varied geography, including high passes and mountains (Tian Shan), vast deserts (Kyzyl Kum, Taklamakan), and especially treeless, grassy steppes. The vast steppe areas of Central Asia are considered together with the steppes of Eastern Europe as a homogeneous geographical zone known
Plains Cree used for writing these sounds all correspond to the unvoiced pronunciation, e.g. "p" not "b", "t" not "d", etc. The phoneme /t͡s/ is represented by "c", as it is in various other languages. Long vowels are denoted with either a macron, as in "ā", or a circumflex, as in "â". Use of either the macron or circumflex is acceptable, but usage should be consistent within a work. The vowel "ē" /eː/, used in southern Plains Cree, is always long and the grapheme "e" is never used (in northern Plains Cree the sound has merged with "ī", thus "ē" isn't used