AFFINITY NAMES IN KARAITE TURKS
KARAY TÜRKLERİNDE AKRABALIK ADLARI

Author : Nesrin GÜLLÜDAĞ
Number of pages : 205-217

Abstract

Basic words play on important in the vocabularies of languages. Number names, pet names, names of organs and the names of kinship are concidered as basic words. Therefore these words are the ones referenced first in languages teaching, and in the studies of kinships of languages, and in languages studies. Turkish language also show a great variety in respect of kinship names. This is the indicative of the importance of the indicative of the importance of the institution of family and kinship relations. The fact that a language has kinship terms a lot of, a few is directly related with the relations of family and kinship in that society. Although a word meets more than one meaning of kinship in many languages, Turkish has several meanings for every kind of kinship. Karais who embraced Jewishness during Khazarian period are Turkic. Karaite Turkish involves in Kypchak group among Turkish languages.Today, Karaite Turkish which is one of the Turkish spoken and written languages is facing extinction. Karaite Turkish incapable of getting a national figure is

Keywords

Karaite Turks, affinity names, Jewishness

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