The Event of Prosthesis in Old Uighur Words Written with Chinese Spelling

The data in the oldest sources about the Turks belong to the Chinese, for this reason, the ideas related to oldest Turkish words and terms can be interpreted based on the figures in Chinese annual. One of the important problems of Turcology is that the obscurity of how the words written with Chinese spelling in Chinese sources are actually in Turkish. In order to solve the problem, it may be possible to reach various analyzes and to establish various equivalents based on the pronunciations of Turkish words in Chinese. The book entitled with Uighur-Chinese Idikut Dictionary is prepared by the Ming Dynasty Translation Room in 15th century and it is one of the principal works that can contribute to the studies on this subject. The writing of the dictionary was initiated in 1382 together with the Hu-i-iu (a comparative dictionary of Chinese and other languages) by the chamber of interpreters established with the order of Chu Yüan-chang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The work has four copies in Beijing, four in Japan and seven in Europe and Amiot, Klaproth, Ligeti, Hu Chên-hua and Huang Jun-hua, Paul Pelliot, F. K. Müller and Ma？firet Kemal Yunuso？lu has worked on it. Yunusoglu's work is a comparative publication of dictionary’s copies. In the text that has various examinations about spelling, sound, form, vocabulary with reference to the Old Uighur material, there are explanations, text and index sections, but not a section for aforementioned problem. In this study, a database based on equivalences was created depending on Chinese spelling of Old Uighur words in Yunuso？lu’s work; and then the sound events based on these equivalences were determined. This study deals with one of these vocal phenomena, the consonant fall and shows the examples of the changes in Turkish words in Chinese pronunciation