Uygur, Qaqauz, Quzey Qafqaz turkl??rinin ?d ... - Folklor İnstitutu

ONE OF THE YOUNGEST LITERATURES-
LITERATURE BY GAGAUZ TURKS
Abstract: Of other Turkic people Gagauzians were late to
form their written literature and started this process in the nineteenth
century. Although Azerbaijan was introduced to Gagauzians
in the twentieth century sources dating back to Middle Ages
inform about the existence of Gagauz village here.
The capital of the Autonomous Republic of Gagauz Yeri
situated in Moldovian Republic is Comrat. This region is still
called Boujag by the people and geographic units nowadays. The
holy place and mountain in Qebele in Azerbaijan bears the same
name Comrat. That place had 7 Boujag villages at the beginning
of the twentieth century. Though they decreased to 3, other toponyms
bearing the name boujag were registered as well. It falsifies
the chance coincidences.
Though the development of Gagauz written literature accelerated
in the first decades of the twentieth century given the
translations of religious books, prayers, historical and ethnographic
articles by a man of religion, Michael Chakir, yet the most important
change in the literature came in 1957 after the new alphabet
was created on the basis of Cyrillic alphabet. As a result, lessons
started to be held in mother tongue in secondary schools, newspapers
were printed and text-books were published in Gagauz.
Besides Michael Chakir (1861-1938), it was Nikolay Arabaji
(1893-1960), Nikolay Tanasoghlu (1895-1979), Dionis (Deniz)
Tanasoghlu (1922-2006), Nikolay Baboghlu (1928-2008), Mina
Kose (1933-99), Dmitri Karachoban (1933-86), Gavril Gaydarji
(1937-98), Stepan Kuroghlu (1940-2011), Georgiy Tashoghlu
(1948), Vasi Philioghlu (1949), Petr Moysa (1951), Maria Merjanka
(1951), Stepan Boulgar (1953), Andrey Kochanji (1953), Todur
Marinoghlu (1955), Petr Chebotar-Gagauz (1957), Dmitri
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