A Tuvan Epic Boktug-Kirish, Bora Sheeley-Language analysis-text-translation-index-dictionary

Tuvans are a Turkish community affiliated with the Russian Federation located in the Southern Siberia region. Tuvan Turks have a rich oral tradition and epics have an important role in this tradition. In this study, Boktug-Kirish, Bora-Sheeley epics, which are oral literary products of Tuvans, were determined as language material and an index-dictionary was prepared by conducting a language analysis on the text. In the first part of the study, after given general information about Tuvan and Tuvan Turkish and the aim and method of the study are explained in detail. Studies on Tuvan and Turkish are given and the process of data collection and analysis are mentioned. Then, the language analysis part is given. In the language analysis part, an examination is made within the scope of the words of nominal category. The subheadings of our study consist of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, exclamations and onomatopoeia. The features related to each part are shown in detail based on the text. During the examination, the aspects that differ from the standard Tuvan written language are also tried to be emphasized. Afterwards, it is mentioned about the text and translation section. In the last section, an index-dictionary is given based on the vocabulary used in our text. The index was prepared using the Cibayaka program. After the index and dictionary, the proper names in the epic text are given in detail. Based on the Boktug-Kirish, Bora-Sheeley epic, an attempt was made to reveal the similar and different aspects of the text compared to the standard Tuvan written language.