Compound Word on a Copy of Prophetic Biography written by Last Period Chagatai Turkish (Analysing - Transcription - Translation to Turkey Turkish)
Son Dönem Çağatay Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Bir Siyer Nüshasında Birleşik Fiiller (İnceleme - Çevriyazı - Türkiye Türkçesine Aktarım)

Author : Ümit EKER -- Yusuf AVCI
Number of pages : 422-443

Abstract

Turkish that was used as the common written and literary language in Central Asia region (= Turkistan) from the beginning of 15th century to 1921 is called as Chagatai Turkish. Chagatai Turkish that sprawled was utilized by several Turkic tribes; there emerged a large canon of Chagatai Turkish in time. A good number of books in prose and verse have been written as from the century that is remembered by Chagatai Turkish; the books that were written in propose are generally religious content. There also are books in “siyer (prophetic biography) / siyer-i nebi, kısâsu’l-enbiyâ”. It is possible to insert the related prophetic biography text in postclassical Chagatai Turkish period (1600 - 1921) by considering the language properties. The text submits a section from experienced events in period pf the prophet of Islam, Muhammad. Original copy of the text in Turkish Writings part in Oxford-Bodleian Library in England. This paper scrutinized the compound verbs used in the text. They were divided into subgroups by various features and also classified based on several properties they included by own contents. There were mostly seen compound verbs in forming of “noun / adjective + auxiliary verb”. “noun + main verb (locutioned)” and “binary compound verbs” respectively followed the forming of “noun / adjective + auxiliary verb” based on frequency. There are 12 compound verbs in other types of compound verbs in the text. The studies that will conduct on several texts that can lighten sound, form and syntax features of Chagatai Turkish in the postclassical period help to understand Turkish used in that period.

Keywords

Chagatai Turkish, Postclassical Period Chagatai Turkish, Compound Verbs, Prophetic Biography, Siyer-i Nebî

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