MUHTASAR SARF-I OSMÂNÎ ALİ NAZİMA

Abstract

Ali Nazima wrote many books on Turkish, concerning the grammar rules of thelanguage. Among those who wrote similar books are Ahmet Cevdet Pasa. MehmetFuat Pasa, Abdullah Ramiz Pasa, Abdurrahman Fevzi Efendi and Ali Nazima.Ali Nazima studied Turkish Grammar. One of those is Muhtasar Sarf-i Osmani(1888) which was prepared to be followed in Primary Schools. The book was revisedin 1892 and published and renamed as Muhtasar Kavaid-i Osmaniyye.These two books mentioned above were intended to teach Turkish grammar simplyand shortly to students in primary schools opened then.Since the Turkish Grammar books written in that period aimed to study the structureof Ottoman Turkish, they were mainly concerned with the Arabic and Persianrules and studied the problems caused by Arabic scripts.Ali Nazima published the books called Muhtasar-i Sarf-i Osmani (1888) andMuhtasar Kavaid-i Osmaniyye (1892). He had also published the books calledMuhtasar Lisan-i Osman-i and Lisani Osman-i.In this study, we also examined the language features, expressions and vocabularyas well as the texts in those books.