- Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi
- Cilt: 13 Sayı: 23 - Language Documentation in Comparative Turkic Linguistics Özel Sayı
- The Golan Turkmen dialect
The Golan Turkmen dialect
Authors : Hülya ARSLAN EROL, Atanur ÖZDEMİR, Fatma KURT YILDIZ
Pages : 115-137
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Publication Date : 2023-12-31
Article Type : Research
Abstract :The Golan Turkmens belong to the Oghuz tribes, who left the Golan Hills and settled in areas such as Damascus, Quneitra, and their rural surroundings due to the Syrian-Israeli war in 1967. They were forced to migrate to various countries, including Turkey, due to the civil war that began in 2011. The name ‟Golan” is derived from the region in which they lived in Syria. The language spoken by Golan Turkmens belongs to the Western Oghuz branch of Turkic and is related to Anatolian dialects. While showing significant parallels with Anatolian dialects, the Golan Turkmen dialect also exhibits similarities to other Turkic languages such as Azeri, Turkmen (Turkmenistan), and Turkic varieties in Iran and Iraq. Thus it serves as a bridge between Anatolian dialects and the Eastern Oghuz branch, and has an important role in the exploration of Oghuz dialects and in the creation of dialect atlases. As a result of the popular uprisings in the Arab world over the past decade, Turkmen groups living in Syria have been forced to leave their regions. The Golan Turkic variety, which was already under the dominance of Arabic, was significantly endangered by this forced migration, and the process of deterioration accelerated. The article focuses on some phonological, morphological, and lexical features of the Golan Turkmen dialect. The data is gathered in a TUBITAK project entitled ‟Investigation on Syrian Turkmen Dialects”.Keywords : Suriye Türkmen Türkçesi, Golan Türkmen ağzı, yok olma tehlikesi altındaki diller