Özet:

‘Ali’s work called Qissa'i Jūsuf continues to attract the attention of Turcologists for nearly 200 years because it shows the linguistic features of both Eastern Turkish and Western Turkish. To date, many different interpretations have been made on the cause for the dialect mixing in the work. The majority of the researchers claimed that ‘Ali was an Oghuz from Khwarezm and wrote his work in Turkestan, based on the Khwarezmian Turkish features seen in the work. There were also researchers who argued that the work is one of the "mixed-language texts", which are thought to represent the transition period from the Karakhanid Turkish to the Old Oghuz Turkish. In this study, it has been pointed out that the Eastern Turkish elements seen in Qissa'i Jūsuf, especially the Khwarezmian Turkish elements, are not old elements from the 13th century. These elements are Khwarezmian Turkic elements that appear in works written in the Volga region between the 17th and 19th centuries and they were added in Qissa'i Jūsuf by copyists. There are other texts, such as Kisekbash and Ana ve Ogul, which were originally composed in the Old Oghuz language and show elements of Khwarezmian Turkish due to copyists from the Volga region. The cause of the dialect mixing in ‘Ali’s Qissa'i Jūsuf is the copyists in the Volga region.

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