LİTVANYA TATARLARI EL YAZMALARINDAKİ TÜRKÇE MİRAÇNAMEDE BAZI ARKAİK KELİMELER ÜZERİNE
ON SOME ARCHAIC WORDS IN TURKISH MIRAJNAME IN THE MANUSCRIPTS OF LITHUANIAN TATARS

Summary/Abstract: Tatar communities that started settling in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from XIVth century began to lose their mother tongue starting from XVIth century due to multiple reasons. Lithuanian Tatars having forgotten their mother tongue but not their Muslim identityand felt the necessity to translate the religious Islamic texts into Slavic languages in order tomeet their own religious needs. Therefore, the tradition of the manuscripts of Lithuanian Tatars that generally consisted of the texts of the religion of Islam in Arabic script emerged. One of the important cultural sources among the heritage of the manuscripts of Lithuanian Tatars preserved till the present day is the type of manuscripts of Kitab.

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