The significant expansion of relations with the Turkic peoples, especially the Republic of Turkey, over the past decades has led to a much more active study of the Turkish language. However, excessive pragmatism and haste in the preparation of textbooks in the Turkish language, shown by many publishing firms, who were trying to meet the growing demand as quickly as possible, led to the fact that the quality of the manuals produced often leaves much to be desired. This situation is unacceptable, since pragmatic considerations should not replace the treasury of our national traditions of studying Turkic languages. On the one hand, these traditions ensure the realization and development of the experience of many generations in teaching Turkish and other Turkic languages in the Russian-speaking audience and thus the most effective and optimal practical mastery of these languages, on the other hand, the achievements of domestic Turkology ensure the study of a particular Turkic language as a special object of research. Such a study implies the need for specialists-Turkologists to know at least a second Turkic language. In all these respects, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of the Turkmen language textbook by E. A. Grunina. This textbook, written by a leading linguist-turkologist of our country, implements the best traditions of domestic linguistic Turkology, at the same time it is conceived as a model for studying the second Eastern (Turkic) language in educational institutions of the corresponding profile of the CIS countries. Traditional linguistic theory, which establishes and preserves the foundations of authentic linguistics [Shcheka, 2011(1), p. 239], relies primarily on the study of the literary language. At the same time, a literary language is understood not only and not so much as the language of literature, but rather as a single, universal language system that serves all areas of functioning and communication without exception. As for the langua ... Read more