Abstract
ON CRIMEAN TATAR TURKISH DICTIONARIES
Crimean Tatar Turkish is located in the Kipchak group of Turkic dialects within the Black Sea-Caspian region. It is spoken in Crimea, Uzbekistan, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and various other regions of the world. This study attempts to examine Crimean Tatar Turkish dictionaries in detail from past to present. Lexicography occupies an important place in Crimean Tatar studies. Codex Cumanicus is considered the first Crimean Tatar dictionary. Later, Kitâbü’l-İdrâk li-Lisâni’l-Etrâk and Ed-Dürretü’l-Mudia fi’l-Lugati’t-Türkiyye of Mamluk Kipchak and the Crimean Tatar-Dutch Dictionary by Dutchman Nikolas Vitsen are considered among the oldest Crimean Tatar dictionaries. By the 19th century, Crimean Tatar lexicography was particularly prominent in the bilingual dictionaries into Russian by Kırım-Hoca, Lazarev, and Bodaninski, as well as in P. I. The work of Köppen, V. H. Kondaraki, and L. Budagov made the field much more comprehensive and qualified. Thus, Crimean Tatar lexicography, which began to develop in the 19th century, made extensive contributions in the 20th century to writers such as G. G. Moskviç, Osman Zaatov, and Bilal Terlekçi.
Keywords
Crimean Tatar Turkish, Crimean Tatar lexicography, Crimean Tatar dictionaries, lexicography, vocabul