The dialects of the Kazakhstan-Aral Lake area

Our thesis, The Dialects of the Aral Lake Area, focuses on the characteristics of the dialects of the Aral area and its villages in the Qyzylorada Region of Kazakhstan. The area of Aral Lake, located in Southwest Kazakhstan is known as the place of residence of the ancient Oghuz people. In 2021 and 2023, we visited two times to the local villages, including in the Aral district, through some limited routes to make the compilation. The thirteen hours of voice records were collected, and manually prepared texts were transcribed (Times Turkish Transcription font). The thesis consists of an Introduction, Analysis (phonology and morphology), Texts, Conclusion, and Dictionary parts. In the Introduction part of our thesis is informed about the research's principles, the region's physical geography, the dialects of Kazakhs living abroad, and the dialect studies provided in Kazakhstan. In the Analysis part was analyzed transcribed texts' phonetic and morphological aspects through examples. The part titled Texts contains the collected texts during fieldwork and transcribed using transcriptional script. The Conclusion part contains distinguishing specifications about phonetics and morphology in the dialects of the Aral Lake area. The last part of our thesis contains the Short Dictionary and References. Especially, the part titled Short Dictionary represents words used differently than in Standard Kazakh and contains the definitions in Standard Kazakh and Turkish languages.