OSMANLI ELİT DİLİNİ MANZUM SÖZLÜKLE ÖĞRETMEK: LÜĠAT-İ ẒUREFĀ VE YÜKSEK OSMANLICA İLE HALK TÜRKÇESİ AYRIMINA DAİR VERDİĞİ BİLGİLER

Lüġat-i Ẓurefā-yı Āsitāne-i ʿAliyye (İstanbul Aydınlarının Dili) isimli eser,

INSTRUCTING THE IDIOM OF OTTOMAN ELITE WITHIN A VERSIFIED DICTIONARY: LUGHAT-I ZUREFA AND DATA IT PROVIDES ON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HIGH LITERARY OTTOMAN AND COMMON SPOKEN TURKISH

Lüġat-i Ẓurefā-yı Āsitāne-i ʿAliyye (Idiom of the Refined Men in Istanbul) is aversified dictionary aiming to teach the commoners the idiom of High OttomanTurkish that included many numbers of Arabic and Persian special vocabularies,which was used by the educated class. Neither the name of the author nor thedate of writing or copying is provided in the work, but its linguistic elementssuggest that it was written in the eighteenth century. The work defines thevocabularies of High Ottoman Turkish by using common spoken words. It ispresented in 61 parts, which are designed within the poetic ghazel genre, eachincluding 9 couplets and a separate metric pattern. As the work demonstratesthe lexical differences between everyday common Turkish and High Ottoman,it also presents unique linguistic data on the lexical items of popular commonTurkish of the period that are not seen in historical sources otherwise on the onehand, and on the phonetic and phonological developments occurred in spokenTurkish on the other.

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