A Glance at Comparative Grammatical Gender Categories of Names in Tuva And Turkey Turkish

In Tuva and Turkey Turkish gender is specified with names of people and animals of fe/male gender. Distinction of gender/kind is made in two categories for certain parts of people and animals. * Lexical Method: T.T. Baba, anne, İnek, Öküz / Tuv. Aça, Ava, İnek, Buga * Syntax Method: Tuv. Börü, Kıs börü, / T.T. kurt, Dişi Kurt In Tuva Turkish, as a part of boys’ names ool word is used. Tuv. kara ool ‘Kara Çocuk, Esmer’, Aldın ool ‘altın Çocuk’. There are also suffixes taken from Mongolian making female names from male names at the same time. Tuv. Ajıkmaa, Aylanmaa, Sevilbaa, Tanapaa Especially in the last century we have seen Russian effects in Tuva Turkish. Male names in Tuva Turkish are converted into female names with femininity suffix –a from Russia. Tuv. Çayan- Çayana, Sayan-Sayana, Uran-Urana etc. When the names in both Turkey and Tuva Turkish are analyzed into gender category, differences in both two dialects are occured clearer as quote elements.

Keywords

Tuva Turkish, Turkey Turkish, Gender in Names, Grammatical Category, Lexical Method, Syntax Method