MEASUREMENT IN MODERN UYGHUR TURKISH
YENİ UYGUR TÜRKÇESİNDE ÖLÇÜ

Author : Mihray OSMAN
Number of pages : 416-428

Abstract

Each nation has its own measurement system. Geography, culture and religion has been influenced this measurement system of nations who live toghther. These factors even conduce to usage of different measurement units for different peoples of same ethnic. Uyghur Turkish according to their languages are using the same and different system units with other Turkish tribes.Some of them have come from Old Turkish to today's New Uygur Turkish and made volume changes when the others emerged deriying new words based on their needs by using various grammatical elements.And some of them even began to be used with the method of quoting from a foreign language. In this essay , terms related to categories of distance, length, weight, time, amount' and their provision in Turkey Turkish are focusesd on. In addition, the use of this measurement in Uyghur Turkish, expression of them and special units in some places are involed.

Keywords

Uyghur Turkish, Turkey Turkish, measurement words, measurement units

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