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Turkish- Speak Ing: Under the Ottoman pire the international character of the collegi pronounced, but since the Turkish Revoluti 1923, most of the students have been Tt nationals. Teaching is in Turkish and En In 1955 the college provided for the educati about 1,000 students, and had an interna faculty of 86 (37 American, 39 Turkish, ai European).
These groups are all Orthodox Christian in faith. In Greek Thrace there are two distinct ethnic groups of Muslims, who were exempted from the compu: sory exchange of populations with Turkey i 1923: the Turkish- speak ingspeaking descendants of Ottc mans who settled there in the 14th century, am the Pomaks, descendants of pre-Ottoman inhabi tants who converted to Islam during the Ottoma; period. The latter speak a dialect akin t Bulgarian.
There are many minorities that speak non-Chinese languages that belong neither to the Altaic nor the Sino-Tibetan group. These include the 14,000 Tajiks of southwestern Sinkiang, who speak an Iranic language of the Indo-European group, and the Wa and Puman people who speak an Austroasian language. The Wa and Puman are fierce tribesmen who live on both sides of the Yiinnan-Burma border and number only about 100,000. The Austronesian or Ma-layo-Polynesian language is also spoken in China by various groups, predominantly in Taiwan.
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