The Structure and Historical Development of the Old Turkic Bitig-Script
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Old Turkic bitig-script, the orıgın of Turkısh bitig, phono-morphemic alphabet, Ethnolinguistic and ethnosymbolic foundationsAbstract
In the language of the Old Turkic bitig-script, the chains of root morphemes VC-, CV, CVC-, CVCC- and suffix morphemes are given by shortening them in the form of phono-morphemic abbreviations Vc, Cv, CvC, CvCC (additional morphemes in the form +vC, +CV, +CvC). Therefore, root or word suffixes are marked only as bare (C) consonant sound (stamp-letter). In fact, this legitimacy means a phono-morphemic structure determined by both phoneme and morpheme. Therefore, we know it as the alphabet for both recognition, recording and writing compactness for reading and speaking. The basis of our research is Turkish bitig script as a linguistic writing system – phono-morphemic alphabet. Turkish bitig script – is a compact control of which of the activities of the phonetic, phonological and morphemic chains of the Old Turkic language. The Turkish bitig script marked the entire level of the Turkish language as a whole and determined the exact level of sounds, phonological, morphemic, lexical, syntactical of the language. During the heyday of the Turkic Empire in the middle of the 7th century, a script called Turk Bitig was created on the Khagan Horde territory of the Khaganate along the Orkhon River.
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