The Idea of Eternal Country in the First Epic Poems of the Turkic People

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Aslan E. Alimbayev1, Laura N. Daurenbekova2, Kayrbek R. Kemenger1, Saule K. Imanberdiyeva3 & Nurbol K. Bashirov1

1Department of Kazakh Literature, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Nur-Sultan, Republic of Kazakhstan

2Department of Kazakh and Russian Philology, Eurasian Humanities Institute, Nur-Sultan, Republic of Kazakhstan

3Department of Kazakh and Russian Language, S. Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University, Nur-Sultan, Republic of Kazakhstan

 Volume 12, Number 4, July-September, 2020 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n4.29

 

Abstract

The inscriptions on the white stones have been evidence of the fact that Turkic people had their writing, culture, tradition, history and the path they made and in the V-VIII centuries. The article introduces with the data about Turkic people inhabited in Central Asia through Orkhon monuments and determines that the ancient Turks struggled to be “an eternal independent country” in the fifth century. Moreover, the article considers the importance of runic inscriptions in the Orkhon monuments in the systematization of Turkic studies by defining the historical-comparative direction of modern linguistics.

Keywords: Turkic, translation, transcript, stone inscription, epic poem, toponymy.