NOMADIC RESIDENTIAL CULTURE OF THE POPULATION OF THE MIRZACHUL OASIS

Abstract

This article scientifically analyzes the historical settlement of the Uzbek, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz populations who lived in the Mirzachul  oasis, as well as the residential culture associated with a nomadic pastoral lifestyle. The study elucidates the origin of the yurt (otov) and related terms, their semantic development, and their state in modern dialects on the basis of a linguocultural approach. Materials from ancient Turkic written sources, in particular Mahmud Kashgari’s “Devonu lug‘otit-turk”, are compared with contemporary dialectological data. The research results demonstrate that the material culture formed in the Mirzachul  oasis has common Turkic roots.