Gagauzlarda Sözlü Lirik Halk Edebiyatı Türlerinin ve Bunların Folklor Geleneğine Yansımasının İncelenmesi

Abstract

The aspects of researching lyric genres of folk and forms of representation the Picture of the world in the folk tradition. For about hundred years the Gagauz literature was relying only on the oral national tradition. For centuries the Gagauz nation was know as the nation that doesn’t have its own written sources. Now the nation that is like the part of the whole Turkic world is closely connected with its own customs and traditions is living in the Autonomous region of the Gagauz in Moldova. Besides at about 40 thousands of the people are living in Ukraine on the border of the Gagauz Autonomy. The Gagauz nation has never lost its own national consciousness. In spite of various assimilative politics it protected its language and national identity for centuries that helps this nation to be alive till our times. The works like Divan-u Lugat–it Turk, Kutatgu Bilig, Kitab-i Dede Korkut that are considered to be common to all Turkic nations and so are also considered to be a part of the heritage of the Gagauz nation. The oral Gagauz literature transferred from one generation to another is the owner of the various literature types. Tales, legends, destans, stories, anecdotes, proverbs and idioms, turkus, ballads, mani, word puzzles ets. are only some of the oral literary types. It’s possible to divide the Gagauz oral literature into two parts: verse and prose. Turkus, ballads and verse of manis are related to the types of verse. Besides a part of Gagauz destans is written in verse that is give an opportunity to include it to this part of the classification. The main problems of the following research work are the out- and inter- text investigations, researchings of themes, structures and contents of the works and connections between them, studying and founding examples of the verse in prose types of the Gagauz literature, scientific approach of these types.