A CHAGATIAN STORY FROM GUNNAR JARRING COLLECTION: ISHAN ANDHIS SHAKIRD STORY (TRANSCRIBED TEXT-GRAMMAR REWIEV-DICTIONARY INDEX)

In the historical development of the Turksih language, Chagatai Turkish takes an important and long time. Beginning in the 15th century and leaving its place to Uzbek Turkish and New Uigur Turkish in the 20th century, Chagatai Turkish takes its place in the history with socio-political influences along with linguistic developments in the 19th and early 20th centıries. In this transition period, various oral features begin to enter the language. In this period, many written text from the transition period, especially written in East Turkestan, are waiting to be studied. Gunnar Jarring is an important name in the collection and processing of Chagatai Turkish texts. Gunnar Jarring (d.2002), a Swedish diplomat, has been in East Turkestan for a long time in order to conduct resarch end reviews. The text he has compiled from East Turkestan have been an important opportunity to fill this gap in recent years. The fact that these texts can be accessed in digital environment has directed the attention of experts to this collection in revealing the language features of this period. Some texts in this collection have been puplished. In this study, a four-page story from the Jarring Collection will be discussed. The story was probably taken from a book written in the 19th century. The original of this story was obtained from Prow. 460 at http://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu/manuscripts/index.xhtml.In this study, the transcribed text of the story, gramer analysis, dictionary and index will be determined and the language features will be resolved. Particular attention will be paid to the –edurġan adjective-verbsuffixs, which we did not encounter in previous periods and sources, and the use of yap- (yaf-) verb used in the sense of concealing the past tense learned in the structure of –ġan éken and hiding in previousperiods, as used in Oghuz Turkish.

Keywords

Chagatai Turkish, New Uighur Turkish, Ishan, Shakird, Gunnar Jarring, Late Chagatai Turkish,