PAREMIOLOGICAL SOURCES OF THE RELIGIOUS CULTURE OF YELLOW UIGHURS IN THE PROCESS OF ASSIMILATION

Yeskeyeva M. Kupayeva A. Kossybayev M.
2023 Ecozone, OAIMDD

European Journal of Science and Theology
2023 #19 Issue 4 57 - 69 pp.

Proverbs and sayings in a language system are one of the extensive source of information that characterizes the essence of an ethnic group and the system of its spiritual and cultural values. The use of the Western Saryg (Yellow) Uighur language has narrowed in scope because of historical, social, cultural and linguistic factors. A distinct phenomenon in the system of Turkic languages, the ‘pure Turkic layer’, characterizes the original nature of the Western Saryg (Yellow) Uighur language, which has absorbed the results of an intensive assimilation process. A small number of proverbs and sayings preserved in the Western Saryg (Yellow) Uighur language during the assimilation process, along with features of the ethnic group’s worldview, contribute to the analysis of the facets of the common Turkic worldview, understanding common Turkic religious culture, clarifying the essence of common Turkic spiritual and cultural values and identifying distinctions in the development of the paremiological system of Turkic languages in general. The proverbs and sayings of the Western Saryg (Yellow) Uighur language have not previously been the focus of research, making this research paper relevant. The paper considers the content of proverbs and sayings about Tengrism in the Western Saryg (Yellow) Uighur language in the context of the spiritual and cultural values. The historical basis of the comparative study of proverbs and sayings in the Kazakh and Western Saryg (Yellow) Uighur languages is determined by reviewing commentaries on the ethnic history of Uighurs and the place of their language in the Turkic language system. The content of Western Uighur proverbs and sayings, which reflect the Tengri faith, social relations, family and moral values, is analysed. Changes in the situational use of paremiological meaning are determined to be facilitated by the semantic range of dominant lexemes in proverbs.

degradation , extinction , lingua-philosophical , meaning , religious

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L.N. Gumilyev Eurasian National University, Satpayev 2, Nur-Sultan, 010002, Kazakhstan

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