Library named after Al-Farabi organized a book exhibition dedicated to the celebration of the Day of the People of Kazakhstan.
Celebration 5 September – The Day of Languages of the People of Kazakhstan is celebrated from 1998 to September 22; The reason for the change of the significant date is the birthday of Alash arys, Ұlt ұstazy of Akhmet Baitursynuly. Akhmet Baitursynuly is a scientist-founder of Kazakh linguistics and literary criticism, Kazakh poet, Turkologist, publicist, teacher, translator, public figure. He is a reformer in the history of Kazakh science, who created the national alphabet, introduced a new model of spelling, spelling, and Arabic graphics. On September 5, on the birthday of the scientist, the founder of the Kazakh alphabet, all Kazakhstanis celebrate the holiday of languages. For the holiday of languages, the library. Al-Farabi organized a book exhibition “Language is the soul of a nation, the wealth of every nation.”
The purpose of the exhibition: 1) Promotion of knowledge of the state language through acquaintance with the history of the Kazakh language, writing, languages of the people of Kazakhstan, fundamental works of scientists-linguists, respect for it and the language of every people inhabiting Kazakhstan, the study of world languages. 2) Acquaintance with educational, scientific literature, intended for the study of the history of the Turkic languages, world languages, Kazakh linguistics, language problems and the study of languages.
The library fund contains educational, scientific and fiction literature in 39 languages of the world. The exhibition presents more than 200 documents of the book fund, ranging from monuments of ancient Turkic writing and ending with modern general linguistics, world languages, ancient languages, language policy in Kazakhstan, including rare and valuable books and books from the fund of manuscripts, as well as dissertations defended at the university on topical problems of the Kazakh language.
EXHIBITION DEPARTMENTS:
PART 1: Monuments of the ancient Turkic language and writing. This section presents books from the library funds, dedicated to ancient Turkic written monuments, the history of Kazakh graphics, and the alphabet. The rare book by Akhmet Baitursynov “ABC”, published in 1926, deserves special attention. The work consists of 116 pages, 128 drawings are used. In 1927, the second publishing house “Alip-Bi (new instrument)” was published by publishing houses in the cities of Kyzylorda, Tashkent, in 1928 the third was published by the Kyzylorda publishing house in the amount of 20,000 copies.
Alphabet = Älıpbi: encyclopedic reference / [compiled by: E. Tleshov et al.; OTV. ed. A. Kozhakhmet]. – Almaty: Arda + 7, 2020 .– 365 p. the encyclopedic reference contains terms related to spelling and world types of writing and the sound state of the language. It contains extensive information about the history, development trends and the current state of writing.
Kaidarov, Abdu-More. Introduction to Turkology: textbook / A. Kaidarov. – Almaty: Mektep, 1985. – 166 pp. The main purpose of the textbook “Introduction to Türkology” – as indicated in the program: to give students an idea of the history of studying the Türkic languages, their classification and classification, to acquaint with the specifics of each Türkic language, to teach them to distinguish apart.
PART 2: Research on the Turkic languages. This section presents studies devoted to the ancient Turkic language – a language that is the fundamental principle of the modern Turkic people, including the Kazakh. From this section of the exhibition of the 19-20 centuries. N. A. Baskakov has works by A. S. Amanzholov, Mr. Aidarov and other scientists devoted to the ancient Turkic languages and writing.
PART 3: Kazakh language is the state language. This section of the exhibition contains books on the language policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the languages of the peoples inhabiting Kazakhstan.
4-PART: Problems of the Kazakh language education. A significant part of the exhibition is made up of research books by such outstanding domestic scientists as I. Kenesbaev, S. Isaev, R. Syzdykova, I. Mamanov, dedicated to modern Kazakh linguistics, topical problems of the Kazakh language. A number of books-works of the corresponding scientist, rector of the university Zh. Tuimebayev “historical and linguistic basis of Altaistics”, “morphological system of the language of ancient Turkic written monuments”, etc.
PART 5: The treasure of the language is the old word. This section of the exhibition presents old editions written in Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, from the collections of rare and valuable books and manuscripts of our library.
6-PART: Language is the keeper of the chronicle of the world. In this part of the exhibition, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1959-1969. cited the parable of the poet, scientist Olzhas Suleimenov “language is the keeper of the chronicle of the world, not marked with written relics.” Farsi-Kabuli, as well as dead languages of ancient times, such as Avesta, Pali, Copt, which played a great cultural and historical role in the life of the peoples of the East. For example, M. Dorofeeva’s scientific essay “The Farsi-Kabuli language” is devoted to the Farsi-Kabuli language, which belongs to the Iranian language group, which, along with the modern Tajik and Iranian languages, is the closest to each other. The term “Kabuli” was formed in the scientific literature as “the dialect of the city of Kabul.”
The next book, an essay by N. Dvoryankov, “The Pashto Language”, is devoted to the state language of Afghanistan – the Pashto language. Pashto belongs to the eastern group of Iranian languages, belonging to the family of Indo-European languages. The closest languages to Pasht are the Pamir languages. Therefore, the following books by the famous scientist-linguist T. N. Pakhalina “Pamir languages” (1969), “Ishkim language” (1959), “Sarykol language” (1966), “Wakhan language” (1976. ) are devoted to the study of the languages of the Shugnan-Rushan language group and the Wakhan, Ishkim, Sarykol and other languages related to the Pamir languages. The Pamir languages are usually languages without a written language of the peoples inhabiting the Pamir Mountains.
7-PART: Languages of the world. The most spoken languages in the world are Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, etc., there are books and monographs dedicated to Western languages and Eastern Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, etc.
8-PART: Linguistic culture. Within the walls of the university, a series of selected dissertations on the history of the Kazakh language, the Kazakh language, monographs on the topic of culture, language and ethnicity and the last rack are presented.
You can watch the virtual exhibition: here
You can read the article published in the “Kazakh Adebieti” newspaper: here
Here you can read an article published in the newspaper of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University:here
