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The Literary Monument “Altun Yaruk” and the Evolution of Ancient Turkic Dialects

Jul 2026 · ANCIENT LAND · Vol 8, pp. 23-31 · 0 citations

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This article analyzes the semantics of paired nouns in the vocabulary of the ancient Turkic language monuments in the Turkic-Uigur writing. The pairing of words is a unique lexical and morphological feature of the samples of the ancient Turkic language, especially the monuments of the Turkic-Uigur writing. It can be said with confidence that a number of formations, pairs of words that exist in modern Turkic languages, formed by means of word-building suffixes - in general, the morphological form of a word is a morphologically formed lexical unit in the period of the ancient Turkic language. To prove our point of view, we can give an example of the fact that in all samples of the ancient Turkic language, words in pairs form new derivative words. The semantic volume of paired nouns formed by root or derivational suffixes is described, that is, such features as pairing of words and serving to enhance the meaning, expression of a common meaning, synonymy and antonymy between the components of paired words are highlighted.

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