On Syntax Of Rumelian Dialects-I (The Example Of Macedonian And Kosovan Turk Dialects)

Since mid-14th Century in Balkans Turkish clans and tribes have established an area of relatively different new dialects with the influence of the local minority languages together with protecting their own Anatolian dialects characteristics. The Rumelian dialects which actually have been divided into two main branches have been in language interaction with various languages, especially with Slavic origins, which are the member of Indo-European language family on account of the historical, geographical and socio-cultural circumstances in more than one hundred and fifty years. As a result of this reciprocal language influence, while some language elements were transfered from Turkish to the other languages, there has been some influences regarding phonetics, word presence, grammatical structures and even syntax from these languages to Turkish as well. In this study, dealing with the “word order” of Macedonian and Kosovan Turkish dialects which constitude the western branch of Rumelian dialects, we tried to bring up that Rumelian dialects which happened to be minority languages in this geographical area have influenced enormously word orders of the foreign languages and therefore various sentence types which were not formerly present in Turkish language were established.