Perception of Turks and Common Ancestor in Kazakh Genealogy
Journal: Bilig Journal of Social Sciences in Turkish World
Year: 2022

The chart showing all the members of the genealogy, starting from the farthest ancestor of a person or family to him, is defined as the genealogy. These genealogies, called “Şejire” (шежіре) in Kazakh Turkish, are an important genre in Kazakh oral literature, and have long been sung by representatives of oral utterance tradition such as aqyn and zhyrau in oral tradition and delivered to the present day, and today they have been substantially in written form. Genealogies, although have undergone