MATCHING THE SYMBOLS OF KOKTURK WRITING WITH TURKISH NOTION AND SYMBOLS


The Westerns talked about in Köktürk Writing for the first time in 1675. However, the writings haven’t been read for many years because they didn’t think that these writings belonged to Turks.When the monuments belonged to Köl tigin and Bilge Kağan was found in Mongolia in 1889, it was understood that the writing belonged to Turks, and the alphabet was solved within four years. Most of western scientist thought that the alphabet didn’t belong to Turks despite the texts written in this alphabet were read in Turkish. But some scientist have argued that this alphabet is a Turkish invention. This study has been done in order to support the idea that writing of Köktürk was Turkish invention. For this purpose, primarly the formation styles of the first known alphabets were analyzed and it was explained that the writing of Köktürk was formed by follow the same process, too. Some forms in Köktürk writing is seen overlap with Turkish objects and actions. This situation supports the idea that the alphabet was invented by Turks. In this study, supportive new views about likened forms to some Turkısh object names and verbs until now (iç,çi / ok,uk, ko, ku / es,se etc.) will be added. So,the idea that these alphabet belogs to the Turks will be tried to support. Also vowel sounds and forms that supply of ök,ük,kö,kü / ak,ka / etc . syllables will be explained for the first time by connecting to a Turkish notion or Turkish verbs and will be described with Turkish words. The study propound new evidence to explain the symbols used in the inscriptions with Turkish notion and actions. The study is important with this aspect in terms of supporting the view that köktürk writing is a Turkish invention.


Keywords


Kokturk writing, syllabic, picture writing, alphabet

Author : Osman UYANIK
Number of pages: 955-969
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.22556
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Turkish Studies - Language and Literature
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