Language serves to say a lot with few words and aims to convey the Word to the recipient directly and economically in the language. One of the structures that serves the principle of “least effort” is the functional elements that fall and remain unmarked by wearing out over time or transferring the task to the next element.

Bögü Kağan accepted Manichaeism as the official religion in 762. Therefore, from this period that developed around a different culture; a rich literary archive of adaptations, copyrights, and translated texts has been inherited. Some pieces of poetry in this archive were published in Reşit Rahmeti ARAT’s Old Turkish Poetry. The material of the study consists of the first part of the work, “Works Written in the Mani Neighborhood”. In the study, in line with the principles of “economy and intelligibility” in the Uyghur poetry around Mani, the unmarked functional elements  (/.Ø./)  were discussed. 

The unmarked functional elements found in seven poems belonging to the Uyghur Period, which developed in the Manichaean environment, and written about the teachings of the Mani religion and on non-religious subjects, were examined. In this period, the language material found in different religious and cultural environments was processed with Turkish, and the level reached by the Turkish language was determined.

Unmarked functional elements, old Uyghur poetry, old Turkish poetry, Mani