Abstract:

In this study, the work named Kitâb-ı Garîbî by Turdi Nâzım, one of the representatives of Uyghur literature in the 19th century, was examined in terms of phonetics and morphology. The analysed work was first translated into Latin letters with transcription. Later, the words were indexed for phonological and morphological analysis. The manuscript of Turdi Nâzım, who used the pseudonym Garîbî, has not been found yet. The work we analyzed was published in Y. Avid Aranyan’s the printing house which was run in the city of Shumen in Bulgaria, in H.1320 (1902-1903) and met with its reader. The Kitâb-ı Garîbî is a work that needs to be analyzed in terms of both phonetically and morphologically. Especially the sound changes in the text have increased the importance of the work for those who are interested in the Turkish language. Although Turdi Nâzım calls his work Kitâb-ı Garîbî, there is a record of “Ottuz Ėkki Eṣnāfıŋ Gep Talaşḳanı” at the beginning of the book. Therefore, in the text, the quarrels of people from thirty-two professions are included. These discussions reveal Turdi Nâzım's poetry talent. The work was written in the meter of prostate fe‛ûlün / fe‛ûlün /fe‛ûlün / fe‛ül. The poet's comprehensive knowledge of prosody increased the value of the work once again. We can include the language of the work in the last period of Chagatay Turkish. We think that it is important that the poet included his own dialect features in his work, both as a structure and as a vocabulary.