Abstract
DIVAN POETRY OF SEYYÎD GIRYÂN CEMÂLEDDÎN KAZÂKÎ AND ITS LANGUAGE PROPERTIES
Turks moved from their ancient land, Turkestan, to the west by following the north and south of Caspian Sea and spread over a very wide area extending to Anatolia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Caucasus, Egypt, Balkans, Syria, and Europe. This broad spread of the Turks over the Eurasian space caused differences on the language they were speaking and led to emergence of new writing languages over time. One of these new emerging written languages is the Turkish written language called as Western or Southwestern Turkish. Since the speakers of this new written language in which various terms are used in its naming are members of Oghuz Tribe of Turks, this Turkish written language is also called as Oghuz Turkish in the scientific world. Oghuz Turkish formed by the efforts of the nomadic Oghuz is divided into two branches by the effect of Mongolian conquests, namely East Oghuz Language (Azerbaijani Turkish) and West Oghuz Language (Ottoman Turkish). One of the poets who wrote works with language properties of Eastern Oghuz Language field where poets like Nesimi, Hatai, Fuzuli and Mir Hamza Nigari lived, is Seyyîd Giryân Cemâleddîn Kazâkî. In this study, the language and spelling properties of divan poetry of Seyyîd Giryân Cemâleddîn Kazâkî, whose literary properties were previously examined by us (2013), will be tried to be examined. The partial presence of spelling and grammatical properties of Azerbaijani Turkish and Ottoman Turkish in this divan written in the late 19th century which did not show any consistency in terms of spelling makes the investigation worth examining.
Keywords
Seyyîd Giryân Cemâleddîn Kazâkî, Azerbaijan Turkish, Western Turkish, Phonics, Morphology
