An Assessment on Uighur Riddles

Riddles which are among the folk literature types have two key elements as the question and the answer. They are one of the commonly used types of Turkish Folk Literature and they can be both poetic and prose. Besides, they have a common usage among Uighur Turks. Uighur riddles which present the viewpoints of Uighur Turks to human, object and nature have a wide content as they include every kinds of abstract and concrete topics. In this paper, the information about creation, transfer, content, form and function features of Uighur riddles will be given.