This article deals with the well known but less investigated problem of language-taboos in modern Uyghur - here in the light of the taboo for 'scorpion', its appearance and its motives in the Toksun-dialect of Uyghur. In addition the writer gives some information about the cultural surrounding as well as the problem of language-taboo in general.
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