Transitional Kyrgyz Turkish in the work of Moldo Niyaz

In this study, the linguistic features of Moldo Niyaz's Sanat-ı Digarastar were determined and compared with Chagatai Turkish and contemporary Kyrgyz Turkish. In the first stage of the study, the work written in the Arabic alphabet used in the Chagatai Turkish period was transferred to the transcription alphabet and then an index was created. In the introduction part of the study, in addition to subjects such as the purpose, method, and literature review related to the thesis, general information was given about Kyrgyz Turkish, pre-Soviet written Kyrgyz Literature, alphabets used by Kyrgyz people, and the work and author studied. In the first part, the phonetic features of the work were examined comparatively with the phonetic features of contemporary Kyrgyz Turkish and Chagatai Turkish. Based on its sound characteristics, it was examined to what extent the language feature of the period was close to Chagatai Turkish and modern Kyrgyz Turkish. In the second part, the morphology and word types of the text were examined and the morphological features of Chagatai Turkish and contemporary Kyrgyz Turkish were examined comparatively. In the fourth section, which is the last part, the index of the examined text is included.