How did the Kyrgyz name days and months? The team of Aigine CRC held a discussion to clarify the Kyrgyz traditional system of time reckoning. Over the years, users of our calendars have raised questions and well-grounded doubts about the accuracy of certain month names and the order in which they are counted. Two versions were compared: the widely used one today (the year begins in January— “Uchtun ayı”) and the version recorded by Ishenaly Arabayev (1911) and Kasym Tynystanov (1926), and discussed in Törön Zhumaev’s research (the year begins…
