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Emirhan Yenikiy is one of the important writers of the 20th century Tatar literature. He was born in 1909 and died in 2000. Yenikiy, who started to write his first works in his youth and became a prolific writer, has continued his writing life and life as a professional writer since 1953. He was in Tatar literature particularly prominent with his stories, which he wrote in a realistic manner. The stories that Yenikiy wrote during the war years, who witnessed the Second World War on the front, are considered to be the most mature examples of his works. He discussed the society he lived in, the psychology of this society, the events that coincided with the period he lived, the problems he had seen in his stories, and presented it to the reader in a simple language, vivid descriptions and realistic style. Humorous satire and irony also have an important role in Yenikiy's works. He skillfully drew lively satirical portraits of repetitive types in life in 18 humorous satirical style stories he wrote between 1953-1969. These stories are the critical stories of Yenikiy, written in a humorous style, focusing on the problems he saw in the society. The author's sincere and natural style in the stories is striking. This sincere and natural style that embodies Yenikiy's realism; daily language structures, cultural elements, idioms and proverbs constitute metaphors that the author has made his own. This study the 20th century Tatar writer Emirhan Yenikiy’s the “Humorous Stories” on pages between 427-506 of the second volume of his two-volume work entitled Saylanma Eserler (Selected Works), which was published in 1971 is based on. By compiling idioms and phrases, proverbs and author’s specific analogies that are frequently mentioned in the stories, conclusions about the language of the text were obtained. The results obtained with the examples given from 18 humorous stories are concretized.