Dolan people Dolan people Dolan (Uyghur: دولان, Долан Simplified Chinese: 刀朗, or 多朗) refers to a people or region of what is now Xinjiang Province, China. People who call themselves Dolan can be found in the Yarkand River valley, the Tarim River valley and the Lop Nur region of present-day Xinjiang. Though modern Dolan people now speak the vernacular dialect (usually Uyghur), the term refers to an earlier culture and civilization in the region. The history of this people is little known. Some scholars and travelers believed the Dolan of the Yarkand River valley to be a Kyrgyz or Kazakh group that
Names given to the Spanish language language came from. For people who use that term, "castellano" may possibly imply greater correctness, as it sometimes does in Spain, or it may merely be an alien term, referring to a region in a far-off country. However, some Latin Americans prefer the term "castellano", especially in Argentina, Chile, and Peru. One reason for this is that many early Argentine settlers were Galician, for whom "castellano" had long been associated with the Spanish state in addition to Castile. Along with Basques or Catalans, Galicians might perceive the term "español" as imperialistic and misrepresenting the language of Castile as the language