THE DIFFERENT PHONETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF ELMALI (ANTALYA) DIALECTS FROM STANDARD TURKEY TURKISH

The starting date of the compilation studies on the Turkish dialects dates back to 1860s. Because the first studies, with a few exceptions, usually belong to foreign researchers, the period between 1860-1940 is called the period of foreign researchers. In the early 1940s, with the publication of Ahmet Caferoglu, which consisted of a collection of 9 volumes and approximately continued for 20 years in Anatolia, the period of foreign researchers ended and the period of domestic researchers began. Today, Turk？sh dialects are complied, examined, compared and sorted out by native researchers. However, there are many cities where there hasn’t been any compilation of dialects yet. Today, Turkey Turkish dialects are disappearing rapidly with each passing day due to reasons such as such as the rapid development and spread of mass media, internal and external migrations due to economic reasons, transportation, industrialization, schooling etc. Turkish dialects, which are very important in revealing the richness of Turkish in terms of phonetic and morphology, should be compiled as soon as possible before they disappeared and these materials collected should be examined and classified in detail. Elmal？, which is the subject of the study, is one of the highland settlements which is 120 km far from Antalya, built on the “Teke Plaetau”. Elmal？ is one of the counties which was settled and denominated mostly by Turkmen and Yoruks. In the study, a brief information regarding the previous studies on the dialect of Elmal？ county has been given. Then, drawing on from Esra Kulle Coban’s work titled Elmal？ ve Y？resi A？？zlar？ (2012), phonetic and morphological features of Elmal？ county which differ from standard Turkey Turkish have been elaborated. In addition, compilations conducted by us in the villages Büyüks？？le, ？alp？nar, ？ayba？？, ？obanisa, ？ukurelma, Derek？y, Ge？men, Karak？y, Karam？k, Kü？üks？？le, ？zdemir, Yaln？zdam, Y？lmazl？ and Zümrütova for etnotoponym study have been utilized to determine different phonetic and morphological features of the county