NOTES ON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN YENISEI AND MONGOLIA INSCRIPTIONS BASED ON VOCABULARY

Abstract

Yenisei inscriptions are inscriptions along the Yenisei River having a total number of 200. Among these inscriptions, although the first discovered one was Uybat III (E 32) Inscription, not much had been known about the characteristics of the alphabet and who they belonged to until the inscriptions remained from the 2nd Turkish Khanate was found in 1889 by N. Yadrintsev. After the decipherment of the letters in this alphabet by Thomsen, researches mostly focused on the Mongolian area, and attempts were also made to read these inscriptions. In this sense, we should mention the names Radloff, S. Ye. Malov and H. N. Orkun. Although it is generally been thought that the Yenisei Inscriptions were erected by the Kirgiz, Az and the Çik people, who mostly lived in the area, the inscriptions themselves do not indicate any date in them. In terms of the vocabulary use, these inscriptions are somewhat different from the inscriptions erected by the rulers of the 2nd Turkish Khanate and the Uyghur Khanate, located in Mongolia. Etymological studies with regards to the analyzed words are also within the scope of this article. Some conclusions, too, have been derived. Also, an effort has been made to come to the conclusion that words which are not witnessed in other runic texts are of dialectic origin, and peculiar to a dialectic.

Keywords

• yenisei inscriptions
• second turkic khanate inscriptions
• uyghur khanate inscriptions
• vocabulary
• lexicology.