Historical and linguistic system of Turkic names and some specific features of creating vocabulary

Abstract

© Serials Publications. This article envisages names of Turkic origin to determine its genealogic and historic links with other relative names, to clarify the exact transcription of the names, by involving phonetic variants if possible, to find out the original word (root), and to create a vocabulary of Turkic names. The authors are studying the names of the Turkic nationalities and distinctive difference in the sound forms of each nationality, analyzing the universal property of the anthroponym formation system. The structure of the languages of the Turkic nationalities is common, and the system of anthroponyms, which is an integral part of any language, is characterized by common features in all Turkic languages. Relative and spiritually close nations united by religious ideas are characterized with similar anthroponyms, because proper names of the Turkic origin, as well as Arab and Persian borrowings account for the major part of items preserved in the lexical composition. A lot of such names encourage creation of a dictionary of Turkic names. On the basis of creation of such dictionary of Turkic names, people may be differed from each other, natural specificity of names can be developed, and they can be integrated into certain groups. Detailed analysis of Kazakh names with Turkic origin and identification of the historic and linguistic system of Turkic names are still in the phase of research, despite extensive amount of scientific works. Creation of the dictionary of Turkic names requires identification of the vocabulary of Turkic origin names preserved and continuously used from ancient times, as well as common names taken from the Arab and Persian languages, as well as research into characteristic phonetic peculiarities and orthographic standards of each language. It is said that a nation is united by call, and each person identifies himself/herself through sounding of his/her name in the native language. Thus, for the purposes of Propaganda of the best examples of culture of naming and name-creation of Turkic peoples, as well as for strengthening the continuity of historical roots, it is necessary to create a dictionary of Turkic names.