Abstract:

Language emerged with man, grew, developed and changed with him, and even many languages in the world disappeared with their speakers. The culture of a nation is closely related to the language of that nation and even comes first among the determining factors of national identity. Vesįle-nâme, written by Şeyhoğlu Derviş Osman, has been studied in order to contribute to a better understanding of the Turkish used in the 18th century, especially the spoken language of the period. Vesįle-nâme is a religious-didactic text written in the prose genre of the Classical Ottoman Turkish period. The only detected copy of the work is in Koç University Digital Collections department. In addition to Arabic and Persian words and compounds, verses and hadiths are also included in the work. In addition, the language of the text is simple and fluent, as religious stories, proverbs, idioms and text are generally written using colloquial language. Although palate harmony compatibility is generally observed, there are also contradictory situations. In the 18th century, the presence of words that entered into lip harmony and/or began to enter can be accepted as an indication that Turkey started to enter a process that turned to Turkish. Vesįle-name, which has a very rich content when examined in terms of spelling, phonetics and morphology, has not been studied until today. In this study, it will be tried to give information about Vesįle-name's language analysis.

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