Language Simplification Discussions in “Turk Dili” and “Turk Edebiyati” Journals


The Turkish language is the mirror of our nation who lived in different geographies from past to present and engaged in various wars. We can easily see everything that happened in the past in our language today. Language is a living being that reflects the history, culture and traditions of a nation. The Turks who spread over a wide geography, were affected by the geographies they passed through and at the same time affected these geographies. It is seen that this interaction is also reflected in Turkish. It is known that various words have entered into our language from languages such as Chinese, Arabic, Persian, French and English over the years. The existence of these words was seen as the lack of Turkish by some linguists and the richness of Turkish by others and started discussions that will take many years. In this study, discussions on language simplification were examined within the limitedness of “Turk Dili” and “Turk Edebiyati” journals and various opinions on this subject were put under separate headings. In the study, all the issues of the Turk Dili journal in 1971 and the Turk Edebiyati jourmal in 1973, where the discussions were reflected, were analyzed. After this analysis various opinions about language discussions were given and the phases of the Turkish language were tried to be revealed. Discussions as a result of scanning journals collected under those headings: 1. Defenders of the Language Revolution and Those Who Oppose This Revolution. 2. Subject of Turkish Terminology to Terms. 3. Discussions about the Spelling Rules. 4. Criticism of the Works. 5. Criticism of Names. 6. Arabic, Persian Words and Compounds. 7. New Derivatives (Finding New Words Against Foreign Ones). 8. Translation Discussions and Made Up Words. While those wrote in Turk Dili journal defend Oz Turkce, Living Turkicists who wrote in the Turk Edebiyati journal thought that this simplification should have a limit and criticized what was written in the Turk Dili jounal. Turk Dili and Turk Edebiyati journals defended opposite views in language discussion.


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Turkish Language, Turkish Literature, simplification, Tukish Education Department, language discussions.

Author : Özge KARAKAŞ YILDIRIM -Mehmet ÖZDEMİR
Number of pages: 753-773
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.41796
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Turkish Studies - Language and Literature
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