LINGUISTIC FEATURES BETWEEN TURKIC LANGUAGES IN THE WORKS OF ABAY, YŪNUS EMRE AND AḤMAD AL-YASAWĪ

Abay Qunanbayuli, is one of the important literary man that has left his mark in the nineteenth century Kazakh cultural life. He is known as the greatest poet of Kazakh Turks. Abay wrote his works in Kazakh Turkish, but since he continues the tradition of Chaghatay Turkish, those who speak Karluk and Oghuz group dialects can easily understand his works. In the work, elements that are rarely used in contemporary Kipchak dialects, but whose origin is Oghuz Turkish, are also found in his poems. Although Aḥmad al-Yasawī's Dīvān-ı Hikmet, who lived long before than Abay, was written during the Karakhanid period, its copies written in Chaghatay Turkish have survived. Despite this situation, we can say that we have come across a few Oghuz Turkish elements from the new copy. In this article, the poets of different periods and regions of the Turkish world, Aḥmad al-Yasawī, Yūnus Emre and Abay Qunanbayuli, were examined by comparing the words specific to Kipchak or Oghuz Turkish. In the study, Yūnus Emre was chosen as the representative of the Oghuz group and Aḥmad al-Yasawī as the representative of Eastern Turkish close to the time of Yūnus. Abay has also been shown as the representative of the Kipchak group more recently. Thus, it was revealed that common elements were preserved in three large groups. Accordingly, it has been concluded that the influence of the linguistic and cultural tradition of the Göktürk, Old Uyghur, Karakhanid, Khwārazm, Chaghatay and Kipchak Turkish periods continues to a significant extent in terms of vocabulary in the written language of both geographies. Keywords: Abay, Aḥmad al-Yasawī, Yūnus Emre, Oghuz Turkic, Kipchak Turkic, Chaghatay Turkic.