Özet:

Words, proverbs, and idioms that humanity has created throughout history to express itself are language elements that provide effective expression of emotions and thoughts. Societies have created proverbs that give short and concise advice by transforming the experiences they have lived for centuries into common thoughts and attitudes. They also created idioms to describe events or situations more effectively. These have taken their resources from the geography, belief structure, lifestyle, traditions, and customs of the societies they belong to. In this study, sound changes, words, proverbs, and idioms in the language of İspir Yeşilyurt Village, which is an old settlement and creates a cultural bridge between the two regions by blending the rich cultural features of the Eastern Black Sea and Eastern Anatolia, were examined. The region, which is the subject of the study, has given great migration for economic and educational purposes in the modern age. The aim of this study was to determine and record the local expressions that are about to disappear in the language during the change and transformation process that occurred in the regional culture with the intense migration. In the process of determining the study data, the observation method was used. In the study, the sound changes of Yeşilyurt Village dialect according to Turkey Turkish, examples of transitions from different dialects of Turkish and foreign origin words are given in tables. In addition, 277 proverbs under 82 titles and 336 idioms under 112 titles were examined.