Study vocabulary of Dionis Tanasoğlu's "Uzun Kervan"

The most important value for a nation is its language. Communities are defined as nations by their language. Nations preserve many materials such as epics, fairy tales, novels and stories, thanks to their language and as well carry them from generation to generation. As for vocabulary, based on these language materials, sets forth many things such as a nation's mentality, way of life, bilief and tradition etc. Gagauz Turkish is one of Turkish languages of the Oghuz group. Although the Gagauz people experienced many difficulties, they did not lose their language and the materials of that languange, managing to bring it up to the present day. Despite the fact that the Gagauz's written literature is younger, they have valuable written language materials. In this study, Uzun Kervan, which is one of these written language materials and acknowledged first novel of Gagauz, was examined in terms of nouns, proverbs, idioms, stereotypes and was classified as a thematic.