Divan edebiyatının dili daima Arapça, Farsça ve Türkçe karışımı bir dil olarak tanıtılmıştır. Gerçekten de Türkçe Divan edebiyatının esasını oluşturur. Divan şairleri, Arapça ve Farsça kökenli kelimelerin yanında Yunanca, Ermenice, İtalyanca, Balkan ve Kafkas dillerinden sözcükler de kullanıyorlardı. Özellikle Rumelili olan veya oralarda uzun yıllar görev yapan şairler, Balkan dillerinden aldıkları ibarelerle değişik iletişim ve anlatım yolları buluyorlardı. Balkanlarda uzun yıllar görev yapan XVI. yüzyılda bürokrat, entelektüel ve aynı zamanda şair olan Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî de bir manzumesinin 10 beytinde Arap, Acem, Arnavut, Firenk, Sırp, Rum, Manav, Bosnalı ve Çağatay halklarından insanları kendi dil ve lehçeleri ile konuşturur. Bu örnekten hareketle
The language of Divan literature has always been introduced as a synthesis of three languages: Arabic, Persian and Turkish. Indeed, Ottoman Turkish that is the combination of these three is the essential of Divan literature. However, Divan poets also used words from Greek, Armenian, Italian, and some languages of Balkans and Caucasus besides Arabic and Persian words. Especially poets who were Rumelian or worked as the state officers for years were finding different ways of usage in their works with the expressions they borrowed from the Balkan languages. In ten verses of a poem of Mustafa Âlî of Gallipoli who was a bureaucrat, an intellectual and at the same time a poet and who had served as a statesman for a long time in the Balkans in the 16th century, there are expressions of Arabic, Persian, Albanian, Franc, Serbian, Greek, Manav, Bosnian and Chagatai people in their own languages and dialects. Based on this example, it would not be wrong to say that Divan poetry is a part of “a literature of an empire” and that the language is “an imperial language”. In conclusion, the language of Divan literature is an entire entity that has basically Ottoman Turkish as a dominant factor but also comprises many elements from the languages of the nations all around the Ottoman Empire.
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