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The ancient Turkic runic writing (Turkic runic) of Southern Siberia, Mongolia, Central Asia and Kazakhstan is an exceptionally valuable source of history for the Turkic languages and their speakers. The regions of distribution and the chronological framework of this writing correlate with the Turkic statehood of the 6th-10th centuries. As the author establishes, the origins of this process go much deeper. The monograph examines the Turkic runic graphics on the basis of refined material, provides a comprehensive analysis of epigraphic finds on the territory of Kazakhstan, provides observations on early types of writing, and puts forward a fundamentally new interpretation of the genesis of the Turkic runic alphabet.