Ancient Turkic runic writing (Turkic runica) of Southern Siberia, Mongolia, Central Asia and Kazakhstan is an extremely valuable source for the history of Turkic languages ​ ​ and their speakers. The regions of distribution and the chronological framework of the ancient Turkic writing somehow correlate with the ancient Turkic statehood of the VI-X centuries. At the same time, the origins of this process, as the author establishes, go much deeper. The monograph examines Turkic runic graphics on updated material, gives a comprehensive analysis of epigraphic finds in Kazakhstan, provides observations on early types of writing, and puts forward a fundamentally new interpretation of the genesis of the Turkic runic alphabet. For linguists, philologists, historians and a wide range of readers interested in the ancient written culture of the Turkic world.