Erhan Aydin

Dialectal elements in the vocabulary of the Uyghur Khanate inscriptions

One of the significant problems with Old Turkic inscriptions is that it is not known by which peoples’ or tribe’s Turkic language the inscriptions were written in. Although among the clans and persons who wrote and erected the large inscriptions of the Turkic and Uyghur Khanates, those of Kol Tegin, Bilge Kaghan, Şine Usu, Tariat, Tes and Karabalghasun I were identified, the peoples or clans having erected the other inscriptions are mostly unknown. The most serious problem encountered by researchers in consideration of the tribal seals present in the inscriptions is the uncertainty whether the seal belonged to the tribe that wrote or erected the inscription, or the tribe that was in power at that time. This paper investigates the inscriptions of the Uyghur Khanate. Our scrutiny is based on the examination of the peculiarities of the Uyghur Khanate inscriptions which cannot be observed in any other inscriptions of Mongolia, Yenisei, Altai and Kyrgyzstan. By substituting these peculiar words with other word...

YENİSEY YAZITLARINDA KAHRAMANLIK TASVİRLERİ

Yenisei inscriptions are inscriptions along the Yenisei River having a total number of 250 and thought to have been erected by the Kyrgyz. Among these inscriptions, although the first discovered one was Uybat III (E 32) Inscription, not much had been known about the characteristics of the alphabet and who they belonged to until the inscriptions remained from the Second Turkic Khanate was found in 1889 by N. Yadrintsev. After the decipherment of the letters in this alphabet by Thomsen, researches mostly focused on the Mongolian area, and attempts were also made to read these inscriptions. In this sense, we should mention the names Radloff, H. N. Orkun ve S. Ye. Malov. None of the Yenisei inscriptions bear a date. The common characteristic of almost every inscription is that they mention, rather than historical events, what the hero of the inscription did, why he died, and longing for family members, homeland, sky and sun as told from his mouth; as a result, they did not caught the attention of researches apart from scientists on Turkish language. Depictions of heroism in Yenisei inscriptions are mentioned in this paper. Text are given according to numbers of the inscription and these depictions of heroism what mean are also focused on.