Lexical composition of Kadyrgali Bek’s dastans

.The article describes the vocabulary of the monument written in the Old Tatar literary language – the work of Kadyrgali Bek (Kadyr Ali-bek) conventionally called “Jami at-tawarikh” (“A Collection of Chronicles”). Kadyrgali Bek was the vizier of the Kasimov Khan. In honor of Uraz-Muhammad’s enthronement, he wrote “The Praise” dedicated to Tsar Boris Godunov. The work also includes Rashid ad-Din’s translation of the work of the same name and dastans about the Golden Horde khans, written by the author himself. All found copies of this work come from the Volga-Ural Region and are associated with Kazan and Kasimov. This written monument, created in 1602 in Kasimov, stands out among other monuments because it intertwines and mixes grammatical forms and vocabulary of various dialects of the Turkic-Tatar language. Kadyrgali Bek himself calls the language of his composition Turk. This language is of a mixed nature, it combines literary forms that go back to the Volga Turks (the 12th-15th centuries) and it was to a certain extent influenced by the Chagatai tradition with some elements of the Tatar colloquial language of the 16th-17th centuries.