Abstract
SOME CHARACTERISTIC PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES OF ELIAĞA VAHİD’S GAZELLER
Azerbaijani Turkish is a Turkic dialect belonging to the contemporary Oghuz group together with Turkey Turkish, Turkmen Turkish and Gagauz Turkish. The differences between the written language and of this dialect become particularly evident in literary texts. In poetry, especially due to the elements of meter and harmony as well as dialectal features and various phonetic assimilations, phonological usages that occasionally differ from the standard Azerbaijani Turkish dictionary forms may emerge. The work G?z?ll?r by Eliaga Vahid, one of the leading representatives of twentieth-century Northern Azerbaijani Turkish literature, constitutes a text in which these differences between written language and poetic language can be observed. This study is based on the phonological analysis presented in the thesis titled Eliaga Vahid G?z?ll?r (10–129 Introduction–Analysis–Text–Dictionary–Facsimile) prepared on the aforementioned work. Within the scope of the study, the phonetic phenomena observed in the gazelles between pages 10–129 of the work have been evaluated in terms of forms that diverge from written language data, dialectal features, and the elements of meter and harmony. The phonological differences identified in the texts have been analyzed through examples. The findings indicate that some phonological preferences deviate from the standard written language; however, meter, harmony and the tradition of poetic language play a determining role in the emergence of these usages.
Keywords
Eliaga Vahid, Northern Azerbaijani Turkish, Phonology, Dialect.