Abstract:

Religion is one of the most important factors that directly affects the lifestyle and mindset of human beings. Throughout history, Turks have believed in many religions such as Buddhism, Manichaeism, Christianity and Islam, and have carried out translation activities to fulfil the requirements of these religions. Turks, who adopted Islam in masses during the Karakhanids period, translated the Holy Qur'an into Turkish in this period in order to understand the holy book of this religion. In this study, the dual usages of the First Translation of the Qur'an based on the Rylands copy, which is thought to belong to the Karakhanid period, were determined in terms of phonology and morphology. The frequent occurrence of dual usages in Khwarezm Turkish texts, which serve as a bridge between Karakhanid Turkish and Chagatai Turkish, is a characteristic feature of the works of the period. It is noteworthy that the dual usages specific to Khwarezm Turkish texts are also seen in the First Translation of the Qur'an. The present study aims to reveal some phonetic and morphological features of the work by determining the dual uses in terms of phonetics and morphology. In this direction, the study is divided into subheadings Dual Use of Consonants, Dual Use of Vowels, and Dual Uses Occurring as a Result of Sound Phenomena. In addition, by giving the forms of the words with dual usage in Orkhon, Uyghur, Karakhanid, and Khwarezm Turkish, the changes of the words in the historical process were also tried to be shown. In the present study, Aysu Ata's The First Translation of the Qur'an in Karakhanid Turkish (Rylands Copy, Introduction-Text-Notes-Index) is taken as the main source.

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