The written monuments of the ancient turks and the tuvinian poetry

Correspondence: 

Lyudmila Mizhit, Tuvan Institute of 

Humanitarian and Applied Socio-economic Research 4 

Kochetov Str, Republic of Tuva, Russia, Email 

Received: June 30, 2018 

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Published: December 21, 2018

Abstract

The Author examines the poetic features of ancient Turkic texts, comparing them with 

modern Tuvan poetry. Three-line inscription of the ancient Turks are studied as one of 

possible origins of Tuvan poetic genre “ozhuk dazhy” (“stones of the hearth”), which 

confirms the continuity of traditions ancient and modern literature.

Keywords:

  the  monuments  of  ancient  Turkic,  Orkhon-Yenisey  script,  Tuvinian 

poetry, epitaph lyrics, tercet, poetic triad, three line form “ozhuk dazhy”, continuity

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The written monuments of the ancient turks and the tuvinian poetry