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Language and literature · Kazakhstan

Turkic languages, epics, books, writers and poets — from the Orkhon inscriptions to today.

Works and epics

Literary workThe Book of Dede KorkutThe heroic epic of the Oghuz Turks — a shared Turkic monument made up of separate tales, inscribed by UNESCO in 2018 on a joint nomination by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Türkiye.
Literary workEpic of KoroghluThe epic of a folk hero who rises against tyranny, told across the Turkic world from Azerbaijan to Central Asia.