DUAL USES IN NEHCU’L-FERADIS
NEHCÜ’L-FERÂDİS’TE İKİLİ KULLANIMLAR

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Number of pages : 74-101

Abstract

With its oldest texts dating back to Old Turkish period, Turkish language is generally studied in three main groups as Oghuz, Kipchaki and Chagatai Turkish. Political, social, and cultural interactions among historical and contemporary dialects of Turkish make it hard to clearly differentiate their language features from each other. Therefore, it is not always possible to talk about a pure Oghuz, Kipchaki, or Chagatai Turkish. Khwarazm Turkish which constitutes the transition period from Karahan Turkish to Chagatai Turkish is the name given to the dialect based on Karahan (Hakaniye) Turkish under the influence of Oghuz and Kipchak dialects due to the political and ethnic structure in the 11th and 12th centuries, and it was local to Khwarazm region which went through a Turkization process. In addition to the local ethnic composition, the native language resultantly inherited a blended form with the elements from the dialects of Oghuz, Kipchaki, and other Turkish tribes. An important source for the history of Turkish language, Nehcu’l-Feradis is a significant literary work as it reflects the blended form of Khwarazm Turkish. This religious/didactic work jointly presents elements characteristic to various dialects in terms of phonetics, morphology, and vocabulary. In this respect, this study aims to identify the dual uses in Nehcu’l-Feradis which resulted from the effect of the dialectal features of Oghuz, Kipchaki, and other Turkish tribes.

Keywords

Nehcü’l-Ferâdis, “dual uses”, Khwarazm Turkish, Kipchak Turkish, Oghuz Turkish, historical Turkish d

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