İLK LATİN ABECELİ TÜRK DİLİ GRAMERİNİN DİL BİLGİSİ ÖĞRETİMİ AÇISINDAN DEĞERLENDİ

Codex Cumanicus whose sole copy is in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice (the first 55 sheets of the work named as the Italian part are in the Biblioteca Medicae Laurenziana Firenze ) is a precious work due to the fact that it is one of the oldest examples of Kipchak language and the work is comprised of examples from Turkish language written by Turks with an alphabet different from the writings used traditionally and it is also very valuable with regard to teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The notebook includes Latin-Persian-Kipchak language with Latin (gothic) alphabet (Italian part), the first part is ordered alphabetically and the second part is comprised of thematic wordlists and (German part) wordlists in Kipchak language and German, some Kipchak translations of Catholic chants and sermons and one sheet of the grammar of Kipchak language in Latin (with gothic writing). This one-sheet Latin grammar rules is accepted as the first Turkish grammar source written with the Latin alphabet. The rules include simple inflection of Turkish and Latin-Kipchak examples inflected as per these rules are seen on page 65v-65r . The grammar rules are in parallel with grammartranslation method among traditional approaches and methods according to the rules and methods of modern language teaching. In this paper, aforementioned grammar sheet of Codex Cumanicus, widely studied from its Latin issue by Hungarian scientist Géza Kuun in 1880 to its first Turkish issue published by Mustafa Argunşah-Galip Güner in 2015, will be issued in Turkish for the first time and analyzed in terms of the methods of modern language teaching.