MAHMOUD KOSHGARI'S UYGHUR ALPHABET: LETTER AND SOUND RELATIONSHIPS

Abstract

Mahmud Kashgari, in his “Devonu lugati-t-turk”, gave information about the old Uyghur script and its alphabet. What the scholar has written about Turkish writing, the alphabet system he cites is very important for the history of Turkic languages and writing culture, especially in the study of the phonetic system, letter and sound relations of the written literary language of the Karakhanid period. Kashgari approached him as a knowledgeable, strong phonetist of the Karakhanid period language.

There are other Uyghur alphabets left over from the past. But none of them can be compared to the Kashgari alphabet and its explanations in its accuracy and completeness.