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ШАЛА ҚАЗАҚ: ПРОШЛОЕ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ, БУДУЩЕЕ

Bibliographic Description

Шала қазақ: прошлое, настоящее, будущее / Жакупов, Ж. – Алматы, 2009. – ISBN 978-601-06-0237-3.

Author
Жакупов, Ж.
Year of publication
2009
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

This book is dedicated to Mukhtar Shakhanov, a great poet and a great son of the Kazakh land. The word "shala" is translated from Kazakh into Russian as "half", so accordingly "shala kazakh" literally means "half Kazakh". When I conceived the idea of writing a book about the shala Kazakhs, for some time I could not overcome a certain inner barrier, which disappeared after I read a newspaper note about Mukhtar Shakhanov. In that note, Mukhtar Shakhanov, having rebuked someone for the incorrect interpretation of a Kazakh word, described him as a "shala kazakh". That description, it seemed to me, was made with a particular feeling - inwardly very calm, with no malice or mockery in it, only a light bitterness and regret. Having taken that feeling into myself, I firmly resolved that, come what may, I would write this book. I hope that Mukhtar-aga will become one of the first to finally extend a helping hand to us, the shala Kazakhs, who through no fault of our own have found ourselves deprived of half of our native language, our native culture, and our native land.

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