Protected Elements in Turkmen Turkish

Turkmen Turkish constitutes Oguz group of Turkish language’s eastern branch but Azerbaijan and the Turkey Turkish constitutes the western branch. A part of Oguz Turkey has used the same literary language up to the 17th century in the Anatolia, Syria, Iran and Iraq geography. After this century Ottoman Turkish and Azerbaijani Turkish created two different literary languages. Until the 18th century, Turkmens used the Chagatay Turkish which has been Central Asian Turks’common written language. After the 18th century Turkmen poets and writers wrote the woks which formed the infrastructure of the Turkmen Turkish. Today the foundation of Turkmen Turkish include the Teke, Yomud, Ersarı, Çavdur, Sarık, Salur, Gökleñ’s tribes language producs. Modern Turkmen literary language basically is based the Teke dialect which is spoken in the Ahal and Marı district. Turkmens depending the understanding of the Oguz-sized units could not have written literature for a long time. Therefore since 13th century they have had their rich products of old tradition. As well as some typical characteristics of Eastern Turkish, some phonetic and morphological characteristics of Oguz group of Turkish literary language are seen in Turkmen Turkish. Because Kipchak and Chagatai languages have been effective in Turkmen Turkish which is located in the west group of Turkey written languages over years, some part of the sound change which has been seen in the Azerbaijan and the Turkey Turkish has not been seen in this written language. Therefore, a large number of protected phonetic elements in the northern and eastern group of Turkish literary language have been protected in Turkmen Turkish as well. In this article these protected phonetic elements in Turkmen Turkish are expressed with examples by a comparative method.

Keywords

Turkmen Turkish, phonetics, protected elements, the primary long vowels, Turkey Turkish.