Loan Words Of Scrıpts In Caramanıan Language Wıth Greek Alphabet

Turkish language has been written with many alphabets throughout history. Caramanians were Orthodox Christian in Anatolia that they speak Turkish and use Greek alphabet in their texts. They particularly lived in Anatolia, for instance in Karaman, Konya, Kayseri, Isparta, Burdur, Aydın, Black Sea area, Istanbul. Caramanians were managed by Byzantion as paid soldiers in Anatolian area in 11. century, espacially in the Toros Mountains. Now, They have lived in Greece since the population replacement in 1926. They have generated a literature with this script. In addition to Caramanian Turks have been used Greek alphabet on house appliances, gravestones etc. Greek lettered Turkish texts are very important that they are alternative alphabet for the solution of problems in Turkish texts written in Arab alphabet.This inscriptions that written Greek alphabet are so important of Turkish language, culture and history. In this study, we concerned on Arabic and Persian Word inscriptions which written Greek alphabet of Caramanian Language.

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Caramanian language, Inscriptions, Arabic and Persian Loan words,