Ata Tarzibashi stage in the study of the Iraqi Turkmen dialect

Abstract

This article examines the research of Ata Tarzibashi, a prominent scholar of Iraqi Turkmen, on the Iraqi-Turkmen dialect. Despite the considerable attention devoted to Ata Tarzibashi's research in the fields of folklore and literary studies, his contributions to the discipline of linguistics have been relatively overlooked. The article demonstrates that Ata Tarzibashi has been engaged in research on the Iraqi-Turkmen dialect for a considerable period of time and has attained a number of notable outcomes. The issues raised by the scientist in the mid XX century remain pertinent in the present era. Tarzibashi demonstrated the proximity of the Iraqi-Turkmen dialect to Azerbaijani Turkish by citing the works of scholars from both the fields of folklore and classical literature.

Additionally, Ata Tarzibashi's perspectives on the shared Turkic language are of significant interest. His theoretical ideas regarding the common language and common alphabet have an important scientific basis and remain a topic of debate in Turkology. He posits that the language of the "Kitabi-Dede Gorgud" epic represents a common language for all Turkic nations, which represents a significant scientific achievement for the researcher.

The language fact also testifies to the antiquity of the ethnonym "Turkmen". Researchers emphasize that this word means "great Turk", "pure Turk", "prominent Turk", "mighty Turk". Even today the part of man in the words "azman", "gocaman", "orman", "ataman", "asiman", "daraman" (giant), "batman" (large unit of weight), "kartman", (big tokha), “fat” (root), “keceman” (big lizard), etc. are used in our literary language and in the Iraqi Turkmen dialect means great, majestic.

The researcher posits that it would be appropriate for his people to benefit from the use of common words that are used by consensus in the spelling of a word in the written language. He asserts that the pure language of the people is of greater importance than the language of the dictionary, given that dictionaries are primarily based on the language of the people.