Material-Cultural Relations of Eastern Slavic and Turkic Peoples in the Mirror of Language

Abstract

Today, the comprehensive study and analysis of the relations of the Turkic-Russian or ancient Turks with the peoples of the Eastern Slavic peoples requires a new approach, a different position than before, as well as a new perspective. In fact, this attempt carrying a historical character opens up great opportunities besides to study the history of relations among neighboring nations, and also to determine the history of language, its appearing and stages of development from a historical point of view. The Eastern Slavic language (mainly, the Russian language) consists of Turkic origin words being the expression of material-moral culture that followed on literary-artistic samples. An important part of words of Turkic origin, which developed in Eastern Slavic languages and have remained relevant for several hundred years since their transition to these languages, are cultural terms, especially, the words as the lexical units (yasа, yasаk, yasоvul, tаmqа, tамоjnya, dеnqi, yam (postal route), surquç, kаznа, tоvаr, bаzаr, arkan, basma, topor, barak, vataqa, palash (a two-edged sword), taqan, kаbаlа, tarxan, yarlık, аltın, tоvаrish, sаn (rank, dignified), аrbа, оçаq, stakan, bashnya, divan, kirpiç, utyuq, bulat, çuqun, bronza, fonar and so on.) that indicate the early maturity of socio-cultural life in Turks. These words which have remained relevant for several hundred years since their transition to the Eastern Slavic languages, still describe the successes of the Turks that have been achieved so before.