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The aim of A.S. Amanzholov’s work on the folklore of Gagauz people living in Kazakhstan is to collect their oral literature materials. Current geography of Gagauz inhabitancy is also mentioned in this article. Not only do they live on the territories of such countries as Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria, but also in the North Caucasus, Kazakhstan (regions of Semey, Pavlodar, Aktobe, Almaty, Shymkent), Kirgisistan and Uzbecastan. Especially, information about those Gagauz people that are currently living on the territory of Bucak district is shared. Given materials date back up to the year of 1965 of the Soviet Union period. The main part of the article, of course, introduces different examples of folklore texts. Gagauz Turkish is a Turkic language and it is usually considered as a dialect of a Turkey Turkish. Although it has a number of unique features. Actually, it may be said that from the point of view of its grammar peculiarities and vocabulary it bears more archaic character of Modern Turkey Turkish. In 1957 this dialect came into written language, thus it is known as the latest Turkish dialect that obtained the written form. The number of literary works in this regard has been rather limited until today. But in recent years in particular the “Gagauz Eri” Autonomous Region in Moldova shows a large number of published works in written Gagauz Turkish. In parallel, there are books printed in Ukraine as well. Among them especially works of poetry obtain the leading position. Along with the poetry there are a lot of works of Gagauz Turkish in Moldova and Ukraine prepared or being in preparation for the teaching or learning of Gagauz mother tongue, that are also attract attention. It is expected the significant increase of the number of works created in the Gagauz Turkish forward with the expansion of native education. Nowadays Gagauz people live in so-called Gagauz Eri (Gagauz Place) in Moldova and also live in countries such as Ukraine, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania. Gagauz people were expatriated out from their main settlements – the Danube region (Dobrudja) between 19 and 20th centuries, as well as other Turkish communities during the period of the USSR they also have been subjected to forced migration. They faced great challenges. Today there is Gagauz immigrants’ mark is remaining in Kazakhstan. Thus, geographically located within the Western Turkish speakers Gagauz Turkish speakers in consequence of force majeure cling to life in the region of Kazakh Turks (Kipchak group) who spoke north-eastern Turkish. Likewise, there are also Gagauz groups emigrated in recent years and settled to Brazil, Russia and Turkey. The main purpose of this article is to present language pecularities of Gagauz people living in Kazakhstan. Therefore, singularities of their dialect features, while living on the previous habitant territories and before moving to these lands are described. Dialect pecularities of Gagauz people living in Kazakhstan are compared with dialect of those living in Bucak district. In 1960 A.S. Amanzholov visited Vulkaneshty, Etulia and Cheshmekoy villages situated in the region of Vulkaneshty, Moldova, in order to collect foklore materials of Gagauz people habitting there. In this work, speaking language of Gagauz people living in the Semey region was compared from different points of view, based on the compiled materials. As the result, it was discovered that speaking language pecularities of Gagauz people from the districts Kokpekti and Jarma of Semey province, Kazakhstan are very similar Cheshmekoy dialect of Gagauz people from Bucak region (based on “Bir Popaz Masalı” and “Annatma” texts). In the course of his investigation A.S. Amanzholov points out obvious differences between Chemeshkoy and Chadyr-lunga with Komrat dialects (with mutual dialect) in this way: 1. In the Cheshmekoy language dialect -primarily like any other southern dialect-, the “e” sound is not changed into “ä”, it remains without any change, like in

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