Abstract:

Proverbs are the vocabulary of that have emerged as a result of thousands of years of experience of a nation. It is possible to see the deep thoughts and feelings in the face of the events they experienced of the ancestors in these word beings. Proverbs, which are important cultural treasures in this respect, continue to exist as a unique treasure of language with the passing of oral language into writing thousands of years ago. At the same time, proverbs are treasures that are least affected by foreign elements and that have remained unchanged to the present day. As well as proverbs are important sources of oral literature, they are important sources of grammar that allow it to be examined in terms of semantic, syntactic and morpho-syntactic. The Turkish language, which has spread over a very wide geography and has a long history, continues its existence today with modern Turkish dialects. Uyghur Turks and New Uyghur Turkish are located in the south east of this geography at the important center of Turkish history. For this reason, proverbs of Uyghur Turkish, which is one of the important branches of Turkish language, and the phrases in these proverbs were chosen as the subject of study. Phrases formed by the combination of two or more words are evaluated within the topic of syntax in studies on the grammar of the Turkish language. In this study, which examined usage patterns of use of phrases in Uyghur proverbs, firstly, the phrases will be grouped and then sample proverbs related to each group will be shown.

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