AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN THE OGHUZ DIALECTS AND THE TURKMEN LANGUAGE AND ITS DIALECTS

This article provides a detailed discussion of the relationship between the Oghuz dialects and the Turkmen language and its dialects. Systematization of the collected factual sources proves the validity of the points presented below, and based on these, the polysemantic words occurring in the Oghuz Uzbek dialects and in the Turkmen language and its dialects have been classified into the following groups: Words common to the Oghuz dialect and Turkmen dialects, but not found in the Turkmen literary language; Words used in common in the Uzbek literary language, the Oghuz dialect, and the dialects of the Turkmen language; Words common to the Oghuz dialect and the Turkmen dialects, but used through other forms of lexical units in the Uzbek and Turkmen literary languages; Words common to the Turkmen dialects and the Uzbek literary language, as compared to the Oghuz dialect and the Turkmen literary language. Examples of polysemantic words corresponding to each group are provided.