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"The article deals with the cognitive nature of proverbs-sayings and winged words in the language of ancient Turkic written monuments. The article aims to reveal the worldview function, the cognitive essence of proverbs and sayings, and winged words collected from ancient Turkic written monuments. They are a golden link that connects people’s lives past and present that is, a spiritual treasure that continues spiritual and cultural traditions, preserved in the mind of a person, society’s memory, language, and mentality. Winged words, proverbs, and sayings in the language of the ancient Turkic written monuments we are considering are also lexical units that provide an informational explanation when defining a conceptual system. In the course of the study, it was found that the concept of «man» occupies the main place in the linguomental space of the works of medieval poets Y. Balasaguni, M. Kashkari, A. Yugineki, S. Sarayi, A. Navoi, R. Khorezmi, it was determined that their winged words and proverbs and sayings have a conceptual meaning. Proverbs and sayings about human dignity, behavior, morals, fame, and honor, supplement the concept of «man» with units that reflect universal human values, such as «satisfaction» as well as «honor, shame», «heroism», «generosity» etc. were analyzed with their opposite meanings – «disgrace», «cowardice», «stinginess» in the language of written monuments. The conceptual meaning of the symbolic data with the numerals «two, four, thousand» related to the concept «man» was also taken into account. Keywords: written monuments, winged words, proverbs, sayings, concept. "