Turkish Glossary Production and Meaning in the Inherit of Turkish Culture: Comparative Analysis of Seventeen Turkish Language Dictionaries

Abstract

Words, therefore glossaries, dictionaries are the memories, identities, vocabularies and culture treasures of nations. Nations produces vocabularies that have been the nations who have protected their cultural heritage, national identity and territorial integrity. All of the Turkish world and notably Anatolia, have been affected by other cultures, civilizations and languages as a result of interaction between the nations and cultures throughout the historical experiences. In this study, the main words in 17 dictionaries were handled one by one within the scope and degree of cultural interaction. The words in 17 glossaries and dictionaries, which are including the Ottoman Turkish and Republican Turkish have been analyzed, classified and made inferences according to the stems of words and the languages they have written by different authors. After a long and exhausting study; The distribution of words according to the languages, the number of words in dictionaries, the origins of words and their numbers and apart from these, the percentage of words coming from different languages in dictionaries and among these percentages the number of Turkish words and their proportion have been exhibited in tables and graphics with numbers.

Keywords

• Dictionaries in Ottoman Turkish
• Turkish Dictionaries
• unity of language
• national culture
• Turkish World

Turkish Glossory Production and Meaning in the Inherit of Turkish Culture: Comparative Analysis of Seventeen Turkish Language Dictionaries

Abstract

Words, therefore glossaries, dictionaries are the memories, identities, vocabularies and culture treasures of nations. Nations produces vocabularies  that have been the nations who have protected their cultural heritage, national identity and territorial integrity. All of the Turkish world and notably Anatolia, have been affected by other cultures, civilisations and languages as a result of interaction between the d nations and cultures throughout the historical experiences. In this work, the vocabulary and heritage of word in 17 glossaries have been examined in the degree and interaction of aforesaid frame. The words in 17 glossaries and dictionaries, which are including the Ottoman Turkish and Republican Turkish have been analised, classified and made inferences according to the stems of words and the languages they have written by different authors. After a long and exhausting study; The distribution of words according to the languages, the number of words in dictionaries, the origins of words and their numbers, and apart from these, the percentage of words coming from different languages in dictionaries and among these percentages the number of Turkish words and their proportion have been exhibited in tables and graphics with numbers. 

Keywords

• Dictionaries in Ottoman Tukish
• Turkish Dictionaries
• words
• unity of language
• national culture
• Turkish World

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