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From what I know, Ottoman Turkish normally used ی which had the two dots when connected on the left and when connected on both sides, but when connected only on the right (at the end of the word) it usually … The grapheme ي was also sometimes used with exactly the same meaning, but when Arabic had the dotless ی in the word, so did Ottoman Turkish. Osmanisch. …

Turkish grammars, like Turkish Grammar, 1976, by Robert Underhill or Turkish Grammar, 2nd edition, 2000, by Geoffrey Lewis, state that the Turkish /n/ is apical, produced with the tip of the tongue. … Also note that the Turkish letter n preceding the letters b and p is pronounced as [m] (e.g. İstanbul) and when n precedes the letters g or k it is pronounced as [ŋ] (e.g. Ankara). …

The nature of the Turkic verb (not only Turkish) and, more generally, the nature of the Turkic predicativity poses really many conceptual questions. … Since the Turkish nouns as well as qualitative adjectives can also be predicates that are marked for person and tense, the question is where to draw the line between them on one side and the verbs on the …

The Gothic 𐌰𐌷𐍃 (ahs) is derived from the Proto-European root *h₂eḱ- 'sharp' which is not connected with whiteness in any way. But the time and distance gap between Proto-Indo-European and Proto-T …

According to Zimmer & Orgun (1999, p. 155), the letter <ğ> has different pronunciation acording to its environment: Word-finally and preconsonantally, it lengthens the preceding vowel. Between front …

Turkish is a typical head-final language which means that nouns, which are the heads of noun phrases (NP) and verbs which are the heads of verb phrases (VP) always come at the end of those phrases. … As for "ev güzel", "(The) house is beautiful, this is a VP, here "güzel" is a verbal adjective "is beautiful", the predicate of the VP, which in Turkish inflects for person, number and tense. …

In the monumental Old Turkic Dictionary ("Древнетюркский словарь", Наука, Л., 1969) it is written that Kent/Kənd is really of the Sogdian origin. The dictionary reflects the words found in the Turkic …

Actually, the modern Khalkha Mongolian жижиг comes from the Old Mongolian didig, which also has the two first syllables identical, and the Turkish küçük comes from the Proto-Turkic *kičük. …