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Turkish has been written in various alphabets since old times. Among these alphabets, the Latin alphabet was used for Turkish by Europeans, at the same time as the rise of the Ottoman Empire. Such historical texts in which Turkish is written in Latin letters are called transcription texts or mediator texts. The authors who wrote transcription texts first wanted to explain the world outside to their speakers of the same language, to introduce the words of that world, and to gradually teach that language in a practical way. They used familiar Latin letters as a tool to describe this new language and cultural environment. In a period when standards are not yet established, it is expected that each author will notation according to their own voice bibliography. In this notation, the speaker's purpose, emphasis, quality of communication, context, etc. it can also be assumed that a multi-shaped and multi-layered structure will be produced depending on the elements. Similarly, the authors' use of the limited letter collection for Turkish sounds can be expected to give information about the possibilities of pronunciation as well as spelling. Contiguous or separate spellings that can be considered among the external features of spelling may bear the traces of the speech of the period. In addition, writing the words pointing to the same concept in more than one way in the same work, even the words that are assumed to be misspelled may indicate the presence of a feature of the spoken language. This article is written to discuss the extent to which such assumptions are valid in the context of transcription text. In our study, the phonetic characteristics of Turkish were examined based on the aforementioned spelling features based on a corpus consisting of 12 transcription texts belonging to the 16th and 18th centuries.

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