Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1114879 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2014 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

The article examines monuments of Turkic ancient letters found in South Siberia, Middle Asia and Kazakhstan. It gives a short survey of history learned ruined monuments ruined letters. The author undertook an attempt to give interpretation of some monuments ruined letters. The article underlines the idea, that discovery and interpretation of ruined letters permitted will refute difference of opinion about absence of writing culture of Turkic people. The Mongolian written tradition and the history of the written languages of the Turkic peoples has its origins in ancient times. Turkic tribal federations living in latter-day Central Asia and Siberia during from the V to VII centuries left later generations a remarkable inheritance of runic written monuments: the Orkhon-Yenisey and Talas runes. These monuments are found in southern Siberia, Mongolia, in the mountains and foothills of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

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