Olzhas Suleimenov – scientist-turkologist.

Abstract

The article is about Olzhas Suleimenov’s book “Code of the word”, which was published in 2014.
This book is perceived as an introduction to the universal etymological dictionary “a Thousand and
one words”, the creation of which the author devoted many years. Olzhas Suleimenov proves that the
study of Slavic – Turkic languages has in the historical past the path of bilingualism. The article analyzes
the genre originality of the book “Code of the word”, consisting of 47 “sketches” and “sketches”, each
of which has a figurative, metamorphic unexpected title. It is known that the title always contains in a
collapsed form full information about the text, images, semantics. And in this book we are once again
convinced of the uniqueness of O. Suleimenov’s knowledge in the field of Turkology and turkoslavistics.
Olzhas Suleimenov said that there are many Turkic words not only in Persian, there are quite a lot of
them in Latin, all Western and Eastern languages. These are traces of contacts over possibly ten millennia. In the scientist’s last monographs, patterns of word formation developed dozens of millennia ago
are studied, and an attempt is made to formulate general word formation rules giving birth to the word
and language.