Turkish Loanstructures and Loanwords in Modern Greek in Asia Minor
Sevim Yilmaz Onder Assoc. Prof Sevim Yılmaz Önder, Yıldız Technical University, Turkish Language and Literature
Mavi Boncuk |
Turkish Loanstructures and Loanwords in Modern Greek in Asia Minor
Modern Greek in Asia Minor describes a Modern Greek dialect that was originally spoken by Greek Orthodox communities in central Anatolia (Nevsehir, Kayseri, Konya, Nigde) prior to population exchanges between Greece and Turkey beginning in 1923. These communities trace their origin to the Byzantine Empire. After invasions of Seljuks, Greek in Asia Minor developed in an isolated area separated from the rest of the Greek-speaking world. As this process developed, Anatolian Turkish exerted a strong influence because it was the language of the invaders. The aim of this speech is to illustrate the influences of Turkish on Modern Greek in Asia Minor. For this, I have used two sources. The first one comprises collected texts
in Dawkins’ book
(Dawkins 1916). R.M. Dawkins went to the village of Silli in Konya, the village of Farasa in Kayseri and Capadocia in Nevsehir in the summers of 1909, 1910 and 1911 and he collected lots of texts and notes on Modern Greek in Asia Minor. The second source is a collection of Turkish loanwords in the dictionary of Papastefanou Georgios and Androniki Karakelidou:
Varasotiko Neoelliniko Leksiko
. These two researchers' families are from Turkey, from the town of Varasho in Capadocia (Papastefanou 2009). The influences of Turkish in the Greek language appear in the loss of gender, word order (compound structures, relative clauses, sentence structure), morphological elements, lexicological elements (loanwords from Turkish, Italian, Persian, Arabic words) and phonological elements (vowel harmony). Turkish influences appear in two forms: literal translation into Greek and the direct use of Turkish elements.
References
DAWKINS R. M. (1916) Modern Greek in Asia Minor Cambridge University Press. PAPASTEFANOU Georgios, Androniki KARAKELIDOU
(2009) Varasotiko Neoelliniko Leksiko, İsveç.
KARATSAREAS Petros (2011) A study Cappadocian Greek Nominal Morphology from a Diachronic and Dialectological Perspective, Cambridge
Sevim Yilmaz Onder Assoc. Prof Sevim Yılmaz Önder, Yıldız Technical University, Turkish Language and Literature
Mavi Boncuk |
Turkish Loanstructures and Loanwords in Modern Greek in Asia Minor
Modern Greek in Asia Minor describes a Modern Greek dialect that was originally spoken by Greek Orthodox communities in central Anatolia (Nevsehir, Kayseri, Konya, Nigde) prior to population exchanges between Greece and Turkey beginning in 1923. These communities trace their origin to the Byzantine Empire. After invasions of Seljuks, Greek in Asia Minor developed in an isolated area separated from the rest of the Greek-speaking world. As this process developed, Anatolian Turkish exerted a strong influence because it was the language of the invaders. The aim of this speech is to illustrate the influences of Turkish on Modern Greek in Asia Minor. For this, I have used two sources. The first one comprises collected texts
in Dawkins’ book
(Dawkins 1916). R.M. Dawkins went to the village of Silli in Konya, the village of Farasa in Kayseri and Capadocia in Nevsehir in the summers of 1909, 1910 and 1911 and he collected lots of texts and notes on Modern Greek in Asia Minor. The second source is a collection of Turkish loanwords in the dictionary of Papastefanou Georgios and Androniki Karakelidou:
Varasotiko Neoelliniko Leksiko
. These two researchers' families are from Turkey, from the town of Varasho in Capadocia (Papastefanou 2009). The influences of Turkish in the Greek language appear in the loss of gender, word order (compound structures, relative clauses, sentence structure), morphological elements, lexicological elements (loanwords from Turkish, Italian, Persian, Arabic words) and phonological elements (vowel harmony). Turkish influences appear in two forms: literal translation into Greek and the direct use of Turkish elements.
References
DAWKINS R. M. (1916) Modern Greek in Asia Minor Cambridge University Press. PAPASTEFANOU Georgios, Androniki KARAKELIDOU
(2009) Varasotiko Neoelliniko Leksiko, İsveç.
KARATSAREAS Petros (2011) A study Cappadocian Greek Nominal Morphology from a Diachronic and Dialectological Perspective, Cambridge