Armenian-Kypchak Monument Prayer Book“Algysh Bitigi”: Phonetic and Some Grammatical Features

The prayer book “Benefactor” which has become the subject of the article's research is known in the world of science as the first printed book in Turkish. The book “Algysh bitigi”, written for the Armenian-Kipchaks, whose native languages were Kipchaks, is a valuable relic of the written culture of the Turkic peoples in Turkology. The purpose of the article is to provide a scientific and theoretical examination of the phonetic and grammatical features of the prayer book “Algysh bitigi”, which informs about the religious beliefs of the Armenian-Kipchaks. The relevance of the article lies in the fact that this written monument was studied in Turkey by Nadezhda Ozakda Chirli, but has never been deeply appreciated in Kazakh linguistics as an object of fundamental research. The novelty of the article lies in the fact that during the analysis of applications and cases used in the prayer book “Algysh bitigi”, their similarity with applications used in the Turkic languages of the Kipchak and Mamluk, ancient Turkic and Altyn-Horde periods is revealed. This, in turn, indicates that this monument is an important object of studying the history of the Kipchak language. The article uses methods of comparative historical, content analysis, stylistic analysis, mathematical and statistical analysis. The results of the research of the article can be used in scientific research in the field of Oriental studies, Turkology, Kipchak studies, in compiling an information fund of written monuments of the Middle Ages.