Research Article

Nasreddin Hodja Jokes in Late Chagatai Turkish

Number: 57 April 18, 2023
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Nasreddin Hodja Jokes in Late Chagatai Turkish

Abstract

A great number of works have been created as instances of the joke/quip genre of oral tradition in almost all Turkish dialects with the character of Nasreddin Hodja, who is known not only in Western and Eastern Turkic languages but also all over the world. This study evaluates jokes included in the manuscript registered under No. 007 in the manuscript collection of the Chinghiz Aitmatov Institute of Language and Literature of the National Academy of Science of the Kyrgyz Republic, which is missing pages from the beginning and the end. Due to those missing pages, we do not know the date of publication. However, the language of the jokes belongs to Late Chagatai Turkish. In this study, we address the linguistic features of the Nasreddin Hodja jokes in the manuscript. The jokes contain certain sound changes because the language they were written in was experiencing a transition period. It can be said that the text was written during the transition period from Chagatai Turkish to Uzbek Turkish. An example from Uzbek Turkish has also been identified in relation to this situation (plurality 1st person imperative suffix -eylük/ -ylük). In addition, the affix +nI, which we encounter in recent Chagatai Turkish texts, is also found in the text. The conclusion of this work scrutinizes the linguistic material at hand.

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

Creative Arts and Writing

Journal Section

Research Article

Early Pub Date

April 27, 2023

Publication Date

April 18, 2023

Submission Date

September 16, 2022

Acceptance Date

March 16, 2023

Published in Issue

Year 2023 Number: 57

APA
Karaburgu, O., & Erbay, F. (2023). Nasreddin Hodja Jokes in Late Chagatai Turkish. Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 57, 357-370. https://doi.org/10.21563/sutad.1285231
AMA
1.Karaburgu O, Erbay F. Nasreddin Hodja Jokes in Late Chagatai Turkish. Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2023;(57):357-370. doi:10.21563/sutad.1285231
Chicago
Karaburgu, Oğuzhan, and Fatih Erbay. 2023. “Nasreddin Hodja Jokes in Late Chagatai Turkish”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, nos. 57: 357-70. https://doi.org/10.21563/sutad.1285231.
EndNote
Karaburgu O, Erbay F (April 1, 2023) Nasreddin Hodja Jokes in Late Chagatai Turkish. Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 57 357–370.
IEEE
[1]O. Karaburgu and F. Erbay, “Nasreddin Hodja Jokes in Late Chagatai Turkish”, Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 57, pp. 357–370, Apr. 2023, doi: 10.21563/sutad.1285231.
ISNAD
Karaburgu, Oğuzhan - Erbay, Fatih. “Nasreddin Hodja Jokes in Late Chagatai Turkish”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 57 (April 1, 2023): 357-370. https://doi.org/10.21563/sutad.1285231.
JAMA
1.Karaburgu O, Erbay F. Nasreddin Hodja Jokes in Late Chagatai Turkish. Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2023;:357–370.
MLA
Karaburgu, Oğuzhan, and Fatih Erbay. “Nasreddin Hodja Jokes in Late Chagatai Turkish”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 57, Apr. 2023, pp. 357-70, doi:10.21563/sutad.1285231.
Vancouver
1.Oğuzhan Karaburgu, Fatih Erbay. Nasreddin Hodja Jokes in Late Chagatai Turkish. Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2023 Apr. 1;(57):357-70. doi:10.21563/sutad.1285231

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