SALIENT VOICE CHANGES IN MIXEDLANGUAGED KİTAB-I ATA-DEDE

Ancient Anatolian Turkish is a historical written language that encompasses approximately 13.-15. Centuries in the Anatolian geography and that developed based on Oghuz language. This historical period is one of the periods which language researchers discuss on how and where Turkish language formed. However, by getting in the text from time to time, some dialect features make it difficult to pronounce as standard Old Anatolian Turkish. During this historical period of Turkish language, many works, whether translation or original, were authored. In some works belonging to the early periods of Ancient Anatolian Turkish, various dialectic features of the Turkish Language are seen together. In these works that are Connecting Karakhanid (Karahanlı) Turkish period and Old Anatolian Turkish period it is possible to see both Oghuz language and Eastern Turkish language features. Thus, researchers have different opinions about these works which are called Mixed Language Works. Mixed Language Works, with their linguisitc features, are important as regards with their information about the historical dialects of the Turkish Language. Mixed language works which carry language features that are belonged to West and East Turkish language played an important role in progress of Oghuz language. Some linguists called this period as Olga-Bolga matter based on mixed language works. Kitab-ı Ata Dede which its only copy is in Turkish Language Institution, seems as a mixed language work in terms of its language features. In this study, despite featuring mixed language, the manuscript named Kitâb-ı Ata Dede has been examined for its voice changes, which primarily carries Ancient Anatolian Turkish features and isn’t come across within the resources. It is aimed to contribute to works that are about mixed language studies by exposing phonetic features of work which it carries.