The Influence of Arabic Language on Turkish Language after the Adoption of Islam by Turks

Abstract

In this article, the extent to which the Turks were influenced by Arabic in terms of language after their conversion to Islam is analyzed according to the centuries. In the works of the transition period written in the 11th and 12th centuries after the Turks became Muslims, it is seen that Arabic gradually penetrated the Turkish language. In the 13th century Seljuk period, since the Persian model was taken as a basis in poetry and the aruz meter was preferred more, there was a lot of influence from Arabic and Persian. In the Ottoman period, on the other hand, from the 14th century to the first half of the 15th century, Turkish was more popular as a literary language since the Ottoman lords did not have much command of foreign languages such as Arabic and Persian. From the second half of the 15th century until the proclamation of the Tanzimat Edict, the Arabic language had a serious impact on the Turkish language, considering the conjunctural structure of the time and because it was more compatible with the aruz meter, and many words passed from Arabic into Turkish during this period. After the proclamation of Tanzimat, the influence of the Arabic language on the Turkish language began to gradually decrease with the effect of the localization movement that had a great resonance in the 18th century.