Linguotextological Analysis of the Text of the Written Monument of the Seif Sarai “Gulistan bit-Turki”

Today, in order to establish the affiliation of written monuments to the Kipchak dialects, it is important to study the medieval written heritage not only phonetically, grammatically, but also linguotextologically. In this regard, the purpose of the article is to conduct a linguotextological analysis of the text of the written monument of the Seif Sarai “Gulistan bit-Turki”, written in the era of the Golden Horde. The article provides a comparative analysis of the work of the Seif Sarai “Gulistan bit-Turki”, written in the XIV century, with its version written in Persian, to study the author's usage of the Sarai Safe. In particular, the similarities and differences between the Persian and Turkic versions are analyzed; the principles and style in the author's translation are determined, the author's usage of the Sarai Safe is analyzed; lexical units related to the Kipchak language are considered separately; and the author's decision in the use of some lexical units is analyzed. Descriptive, linguotextological, historical-comparative and linguostatistical methods were used in the study of the text of the monument “Gulistan bit-Turki” of the Seif Sarai. The practical significance of the research work consists in clarifying and defining issues related to Turkology and textual studies.