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Abstract
This article discusses the riddle about the butterfly in “Codex Cumanicus” manuscript belongs to XIV century and kept in library of Marchana in Italy nowadays. Though this riddle has a solution as mentioned above “butterfly” its answer is different in modern parallel Turkic riddles. In order to identify this the riddle type was compared to modern Turkic parallel riddles of Uzbek, Karakalpak, Kazak, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Turk, Tatar, Azerbaijan and others. In addition to this, the translations of it made by Bang, Nemet, Malov, Tietse, Drimba, Garkaves, Guner, Jafarov were compared to each other. The result showed that this riddle must have a different answer “Mirror” as given in modern Turkic parallels.
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