Title of article
On Ali-Shir Navai and Nowadays Uzbek Language’s Vowels
Author/Authors
BERDAK, Yusuf
From page
67
To page
80
Abstract
In this article, the vowel system of former Chagatai written language has been considered. Some Turkologists have defended that there are 9 vowels in Chagatai by setting out from Navai’s works, and some have defended the being of 6 vowels. We clearly brought up the being of 9 vowels in Chagatai by giving some samples from Navai’s works. The being of 9 vowels in Chagatai’s inheritor today’s Uzbek Turkish too as in Chagatai is obvious. But as a result of Soviet Turkologists’ planned studies, 6 vowels has been accepted as a base in Uzbek instead of 9 vowels in change from Arabic alphabet to Latin alphabet, than 6 vowel phonems had became rule for Uzbek in change to Kiril alphabet. As a result of this alphabet change a chaos has been created by showing the /a/ sound existing general Turkish language in Uzbek as sound /o/. Whereas there are 9 even 10 vowel phonems in today’s Uzbek language as in former Chagatai language.
Keywords
Navai’s language , vowel system of Chagatai language , Chagatai written language , vowel system of Uzbek , alphabet revolution
Journal title
Journal Of Turkoloji
Journal title
Journal Of Turkoloji
Record number
2659949
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