The National Phonetic Views of Ashurali Zohiri and Elbek

DOI 10.52773/tsuull.uzlc.2020.2/EPDE7078

Abstract

At the beginning of the last century, selfless representatives of the
nation carried out serious works in developing literary norms of the Uzbek
language, in studying the unique features of our national language, which
has its system of rules and patterns. Jadids realized that for the formation,
development and recognition of the nation, a normalized literary language
based on a system of certain rules is needed. Therefore, the main task
facing the Uzbek intelligentsia was to develop the rules and patterns of
the Uzbek language, conduct research works in this regard. Of course, they
understood that this work can be done by accomplishing a rather compli-
cated, laborious and painstaking work, constantly conducting researches,
overcoming the various kinds of contradictions that existed at that period.
They raised the question of what the phonetics of the national language should be like, since the Uzbek language, like other Turkic languages, had developed over the centuries according to the principle of synchronism. The article reflects the views of the representatives of Jadid scholars,
Ashurali Zohiri and Elbek on the law of synchronism, the con- troversial
positions regarding the sound of labial vowels and the number of vowels
in the Uzbek language based on the law of synchronism which highlights
various positions regarding the vowels.