GRAMMAR FEATURES OF CONTEMPORARY TURKISH DIALECTS IN MANAS EPIC

Abstract

The Manas epic, known as the world's greatest epic, is a cultural phenomenon that plays a crucial role in creating the Kyrgyz national identity. Because this epic is a work that reflects the history of the people, the culture, the world view, the aims of the people at the national level. It has been regarded as an encyclopedia by scientists in terms of reflecting the ancient Turkish culture in particular. Moreover, in S. Orozbakov's variant, the language of Manas is called Turkic til, Turkish. In other words, it was emphasized that the epic is a common cultural heritage of Turkic world. In this context, it is expected that the language characteristics of Turkic nations neighboring Kyrgyz are expected to be found in Manas Epic. Indeed, it has been found that some grammatical features of the Kazakh, Uzbek Turkic languages are included in the Manas Epic. For example, in the epic of Manas, is used suffix -Xr for the present time which is unique to Kazakh language.

Keywords

• manas epic
• contemporary turkish dialects
• turkish peoples
• kazakh turkish
• grammatical features.