Gunnar Jarring Koleksiyonunda Bulunan Uygurca Hurliḳa ve Hemrah Destanı (Giriş-Metin -İnceleme Dizin)

Abstract

The topic of this thesis is the Hurliḳa-Hemrah epic, a text found in the Gunnar Jarring Collection of Eastern Turki manuscripts at Lund University Library, Sweden. The first part of the thesis provides an introduction followed by general information about the research topic and purpose. The introductory section is followed by three main chapters. The first chapter covers the history of Eastern Turkestan, Chagatay and New Uyghur, the Swedish missionaries who brought the Hurliḳa-Hemrah Epic and many other manuscripts to Sweden as well as their activities in East Turkestan, the Gunnar Jarring Collection of Lund University in Sweden, and research on Gunnar Jarring's contribution to Turkology The second chapter presents information about the epic. In this chapter the spelling and linguistic features of the text are shown, and the phonetic and morphological features of the manuscript text are compared with modern Uyghur language and its dialects. The final chapter provides a standard translation of the epic. The simple and conjugated forms of the words occurring in the text are shown in the index section, along with their semantic characteristics.