Kıbrıs Türk Ağzında İtalyanca Sözcükler

Abstract

Greek Cypriots lived together with Italian-Latin rooted people and were governed by these communities. This government and living together influenced Turkish Cypriot dialect as well after the Turks came to the island. In this study, Italian words in Turkish Cypriot dialect have been described. To this end, studies on this issue have been researched. Although some Italian words in Turkish Cypriot dialect are common with Modern Turkish in Turkey, it has been concluded that some of the words have appeared as the result of the interaction of the languages Latin-Italian-Greek-Turkish. It has been observed that Italian words in Turkish Cypriot dialect are related with the followings: job names and equipment, characteristics related to people and animals, names given to food and drinks, furniture, household goods, measurement and time, clothing, species of animals, birds and fish, flowers and plants, card games, fine arts and ship axels. As some of the Italian words differ from Modern Turkish in Turkey as a result of various meaning changes, some have been used in common with Anatolian dialects and some as slang.