Ayhan ÇELİKBAY
This work, compiled by the Russian Turcologist N. Veselovskiy, The Kyrgyz Tale of the Russian Conquests on the Turkestan Land contains four manuscripts. These manuscripts are as follow: 1. Orus Leşkerinin
gTürkistan’da Tārī ḫ 1269-1272 Senelerde Ḳ ılġan Fütū ḥ ātları; 2. Ḫ udāyār Ḫ annın
gÖlen
gi; 3. Orusnın
gKelgeni; 4. Can
g Ḳ oca
Bātırdın
gTolġavı. This study aims to introduce the work to Turcology society and to touch upon the basic language features of the texts.
Key Words: Turkestan, Modern Turkic languages, historical texts, phonetics, morphology.