2015 - CONTRIBUTION TO SUPPLEMENT DICTIONARY FROM ANAMUR DIALECT‐2

Anamur, is the province where transportation is the most difficult to one to Mersin distric. Its historical past go es back to 4 thousand years and since the period of Ottoman Empire became a province of İçel. The far distance of Anamur makes language studies quite valuable and fruitfull. Even it is on the shore of the Medditerranian sea the economy is based on aggricultural production and this feature prevented the migration to the province. Thus almost all settlers live here are Yörüks. Anamur, is one of the fields which have not been studied academically in point of linguistic richness. Due to technological development in mass media and especially road construction between Mersin and Antalya cities are effecting the traditional life and linguistic structure of people live around Anamur. For these reasons the lingusitic richness of the region must be academically studied and preserved for Turkish literature. The study consists of two valumes. The first had been published before and 3 villages which were contained in the sample group of the first study now are dissapeared on the map because the dam which is being built to supply drinkable water for Cyprus is into Anamur borders. So such 3 villages remained under the water of the dam. Considering this situations in addition to villages visited in first study some other villages had been added to sample group. Via the study, supplementation were done and speeches of narrators were recorded to be transcribed by researcher. After the result of supplenementation 57 words and word phrases were identified. It was determined that 41 of such words and phrases were not found and the rest 16 have different meanings in Türkiye Türkçesi Ağızları Sözlüğü (Supplement Dictionary of Turkish of Turkey). In this sense it is expected from the study to encourage researchers to discover the richness of the geoghraphy where Yörüks live and to make a contribution to Supplement Dictionary as well.