Intervowel Situated /g/ and /ġ/ in Western Rumelian Turkish

In Turkish language /g/ and /g/ sounds which had been in Old Turkish and Middle Turkish periods, until that periods into nowadays, have undergone several changes. Today these /g/ and /g/ sounds are protected in some areas (like agız). In some areas, these sounds turned into /v/ (or /w/), /y/ sounds. Also in some kind of areas they saw many sound events like disappearance, vowel length. In several areas of Turkish language these sorts of sound changes was not made same results. Also Turkey Turkish’s dialects have got different results. In areas of Turkey Turkish, somewhere these intervowel situated /g/ and /g/ sounds have protected himself, somewhere they turned into /y/ and /v/ sounds, somewhere they made diphthongs, vowel lengths. In Rumelia regions sub region Western Rumelia dialect zone these /g/ and /g/ sounds usually are protected. This characteristic has been written as Western Rumelian characteristic on linguistic publications. But as they can seen in table, some of words’ /g/ and /g/ sounds had not protected in the areas vocabulary. On that table, preserved forms like bogaz “throat”, dügün “wedding”, yogurt “yoghurt”, shrinking forms like dil (<< tegül) “is not” and changing forms like kavun (< kagun) “melon” are shown. Today in Western Rumelia intervowel situated /g/ and /g/ sounds are usually preserved. Also there is a kind of examples which changed its /g/ sound into /v/ sound and which had been shrunk.

Keywords

Western Rumelian dialects, intervowel situated /g/ and /ġ/, disappearance.