CURRENT ISSUES OF LINGUAL AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF JUDICIAL CRIMEAN KHANATE BOOKS OF XVII-XVIII c
This article is devoted to the problems of research and translation of the Crimean Tatar manuscripts - judicial books of XVII-XVIII c.c. from Bakhchisaray, Karasubazar and some other districts of the Crimean Khanate. The history of detection and studying of these documents, and the first attempts to read and translate these books are presented here in detail. The attention is drawn to yet unstudied lingual and cultural peculiarities of the Crimean judicial registries of XVII-XVIII c.c. The article clarifies some aspects of the problems which were conditioned by a number of inaccuracies and mistakes that were made in previous studies of these manuscripts. One of the central problems of linguistic study of the Crimean medieval judicial texts is the problem of identifying and describing the language of ancient texts. The results of some observations, which determine the general direction of philological investigations of the Crimean Tatar judicial manuscripts of the Khanate era are also presented in this article as well as the tasks for their further studying.