THE OPTATIVE IN EAST THRACE DIALECTS / DO U TRAKYA A IZLARINDA ISTEK KIPI

The region called East Thrace is in the northwest ofTurkey. The east branch of Rumelia dialect is spoken in thecities which are in this region. Rumelia dialects of the eastregion have not been studied scientifically enough. East Thracedialects include the dialects of Gacal, Dagl , Pomak andimmigrants. Even though these dialects keep theircharacteristics, they are on the edge of making up a commondialect by influencing each other. Not all the optative suffixesare used in these dialects. Optative meaning is correspondedby impretive suffixes. While East Thrace dialects appear tohave a common dialect characteristic, at the same time theygain the characteristics of Istanbul Turkish.