Trabzon Ağızları Üzerine Değerli Bir Araştırma ve Düşündürdükleri

Abstract

This article summarizes the main points of Norwegian Turkologist Bernt Brendemoen's two volume book titled as The Turkish Dialects of Trabzon (Their Phonology and Historical Development). In order to correct the mistakes, which the writer made in the analysis volume of the book, the article gives documented information based on the historical researches, archive documents and other resources, which the writer did not search. In his book, Prof. Brendemoen argues that the dialects of Trabzon and its environment are formed from the mixing of the A Greek (and Armenian a little) substrate shift and B Turkish superstrate. However, in this article it is argued that, this is not the case. The truth is that the dialects of Trabzon and its environment are formed from the mixing and historical development of A Kuman-Kzp9ak Turkish substrate shift and Bsuperstrate based on the old Anatolian Turkish.