Abstract
SOGDIAN, CHINESE, RUSSIAN, ARAMAIC AND HEBREW LOANWORDS IN CODEX CUMANICUS
Codex Cumanicus is an extremely important work for both the historical Kipchak Turkic and the nations in which Kipchaks interact in political, military, commercial and cultural terms. In this study, Sogdian, Chinese, Russian, Aramaic and Hebrew loanwords were found which were identified from the vocabulary of the text. Because in Codex Cumanicus the words quoted from these languages have not been touched on in any particular work. In spite of the fact that we are faced with a few words which are not very numerous. But especially the Sogdian and Chinese relations that we have been able to follow since the Old Turkic period, Turkic-Russian relations because of the Golden Horde-Russian relations and Aramaic and Hebrew relations because of religious reasons are extremely important for the works about Codex Cumanicus. Because of that first we overvieved the vocabulary of Codex Cumanicus and found the words quoted from Sogdian, Chinese, Russian, Aramaic and Hebrew. Then these words were evaluated in the context of the text and culturally by taking advantage of the basic dictionaries of the relevant languages.
Keywords
Kipchaks, Kipchak Turkic, Codex Cumanicus, loan word.