Magtymguly Pyragy’s “Diwan” and the Turkic-Oghuz languages

Abstract

The object of the research is the Turkic-Oghuz languages. The historical development of these languages is researched on the basis of the new copy of "Diwan" by the Turkmen poet M. Pyragy. The issues of phonetic, lexical and grammatical similarity and norms of those languages are discussed in the article. Although these cognate languages have the same root in terms of both genetic and typological structure, there are differences of normalization phonetically, lexically, morphologically and syntactically among them. Those differences are not radical changes in terms of the structure of language in the artistic context. These consist of norm deviations that appearing under the influence of the speech act at a certain stage of development of those languages. The article briefly focuses on the language features of the new copy of the “Diwan” written by Magtymguly Pyragy, the poet of the entire Turkic world. Comparisons are made with the works of Turkish and Azerbaijani poets (A.Nadim and M.P.Vagif) who lived in the same period. Magtymguly Pyragy is the language and themselves of the Turkmen people. He was able to perfectly preserve the literary and artistic environment and language characteristics of the time he lived in. He is a strong contact that connecting the Turkmen people to their ancient culture, literature, and language. This situation can be seen in the culture, literature, history and language of the Azerbaijani and Turkic peoples. In addition to be an incomparable wordsmith, a Sufi poet, he is also a wise philosopher, a great thinker, a scientist, a talented storyteller, a sagacious elder, and a leader of the spiritual world of Turkmenistan.