XV. Century’s Encyclopedia: Dürr-i Meknun and a Study About Its language Cover Image

XV. Yüzyılın Ansiklopedisi Dürr-i Meknun ve Dili Üzerine Bir İnceleme
XV. Century’s Encyclopedia: Dürr-i Meknun and a Study About Its language

Author(s): Zeynep Şimşek Umaç
Subject(s): Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Morphology, Historical Linguistics, 15th Century, The Ottoman Empire, Turkic languages
Published by: Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Keywords: Old Oghuz Turkish; Dürr-i Meknun; Transition to Classical Ottoman Turkish; Encyclopedia;

Summary/Abstract: In this article, Dürr-i Meknun’s grammatical properties has studied. Dürr-i Meknun was written in Old Oghuz Turkish which is the most important periods of Western Turkish. It is an encyclopedia for the period in which was written due to the richness of its contents. Period of this book is a transition period between the Old Oghuz Turkish to advanced literary language which was called Ottoman Turkish. In this study was aimed to introduce of a transition period’s book’s grammatical properties. The place of the book in our cultural history was tried to be reminded by giving general information about the book and the author. Because of this book has been studied before, in this study only the prominent phonetic and morphological properties of the period are emphasized it is aimed to emphasize the transition period properties that characterize the period. In accordance with the characteristics of the period, the book appears to have gived point to the features of the Ottoman Turkish literary language.

  • Issue Year: 19/2021
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 13-31
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Turkish