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REFLECTIONS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF COMPILING SPELLING RULES

Jadid, “Chigatai Talks”, spelling, sound, stretch, letter, harmony of sounds, thickness, thinness, noun, verb, norm

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The spelling rules developed by the “Chagatay Gurungi” were still in the experimental stage and, as such, were not without flaws.
Consequently, there were ongoing inconsistencies in spelling. Even in newspapers, variations in the spelling of words and the usage of
dialectal terms were observed. In particular, there were differing opinions among the Jadids regarding the adaptation of foreign words to
the law of harmony of sounds and the orthography of Arabic words. As a result, efforts began to develop more refined spelling rules. The
spelling rules published in issues 7-8 of the “Maorif va o‘qutg‘uchi” journal in 1926 were the outcome of these efforts. This article
discusses these spelling rules