The Traces Of Old Turkish In Chagatai Turkish

The works of Chagatai Turkish not only contains all features turning out Chagatai Turkish into a literary language but also it includes Oğuz and Kıpçak Turkish elements and Old Turkish phonetic and structural characteristics. While some language features of Uighur and Köktürk period become a characteristic feature of Chagatai Turkish, some of these features indicate a structural feature of archaic especially in the works of Chagatai Turkish, a close follower of Old Turkish. In this study, the language features of Old Turkish have been determined in the works of Chagatai Turkish and the presence of word power of the time has been tried to be examined in the same direction. The statement "Old Turkish" refers to the Uighur and Köktürk Turkish.

Keywords

Turkish Language, Chagatai Turkish, Old Turkic, archaic elements