| Summary: | The Manas epic, known as the world's greatest epic, is a cultural phenomenon that plays
a crucial role in creating the Kyrgyz national identity. Because this epic is a work that reflects
the history of the people, the culture, the world view, the aims of the people at the national
level. It has been regarded as an encyclopedia by scientists in terms of reflecting the ancient
Turkish culture in particular. Moreover, in S. Orozbakov's variant, the language of Manas is
called Turkic til, Turkish. In other words, it was emphasized that the epic is a common cultural
heritage of Turkic world. In this context, it is expected that the language characteristics of
Turkic nations neighboring Kyrgyz are expected to be found in Manas Epic. Indeed, it has been
found that some grammatical features of the Kazakh, Uzbek Turkic languages are included in
the Manas Epic. For example, in the epic of Manas, is used suffix -Xr for the present time which
is unique to Kazakh language.
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