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Now, I am sharing here below again some of the information I shared on the other page in this platform. Which is necessary for a good understanding of ATA transcription.
Thus, we can continue here whenever we find the opportunity, together with those who have a say on whether the Voynich texts contain Turkish or not, or who want to express their opinions.
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There are phonetic harmony structures in Turkish, and I don't think you can see similar ones in Indo-European languages. For example, the vowel in between
-SEM and
-SAM word suffixes became
E or
A.
This situation does not change the function of this word suffix. So these both show that a person is being expressed. There is a vowel harmony in every Turkish dialect of our language. If you read them from a professional's page, you will understand how sometimes two sometimes 5 voices correspond to one sign in our transcription.
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There are eight vowels in todays
Turkey Turkish.
They are divided into two groups:
The A-UnDotted Vowels:
A I O U
The Dotted Vowels are produced at the front of the mouth similar to French pronounciation.
The E-Dotted Vowels:
E İ Ö Ü
The UnDotted Vowels are produced nearer the throat as in English.
For example;
To form plurals we have a choice to add either
-lar or
-ler to the word.
The Plural Suffix is chosen from
-ler or
-lar to mirror the final vowel of its noun.
All other suffixes containing
a or
e follow this
Vowel Harmony rule.
The plural suffix
-ler to words whose final vowel is one of the
E-Dotted Vowels. Same as the plural suffix
-lar to words whose vowel is one of the
A (non dotted) vowels.
There are a very few exceptions to this rule where the suffix does not echo Vowel Harmony exactly as examples (pls see the source link).
So, Vowel Harmony of Turkish Suffixes
All words with their last vowel in the
A-UnDotted Group take
-lar as their plural. This rule applies for all suffixes which contain
a.
Those words with an
E-Dotted Group Vowel take
-ler as their plural. This rule applies for all suffixes which contain
e.
Common and important words which are in constant use:
in, on, at, from, to, with, etc. are suffixes in Turkish. They must harmonize with final vowel of the word they modify.
For this reason, if you are going to try to transcribe a Turkish text, you put different vowel variants in front of each alphabet sign. This situation does not occur in what you call Indo-European languages. For this reason, someone who speaks an Indo-European language naturally thinks that we did the transcription that we did in order to create a space for ourselves to read. But not. This is a normal case. Moreover, since we have not yet determined which dialect the Voynich manuscript author uses, we try to find some sound equivalents in many sentences by trial and error. This situation usually only seems more confusing with multi-syllable marks. However, when we started this work, while there were more phonetic alternatives for each sign, we eliminated these as our work progressed over time.
In addition,
For animate subjects the verb tense suffix must agree in Turkish:
Both the subject and the verb are singular or both subject and verb are plural. The motion away suffix -den/-dan from, by, via, through. The motion toward suffix -(y)e/-(y)a to, towards. Buffer letter -y is used between vowels.
There are two different forms of I (İ) and U (Ü) in Turkish.
The UnDotted Forms of
I or
U follow the
A-UnDotted group
A I O U
The Dotted Forms of
İ or
Ü follow the
E-Dotted group
E İ Ö Ü
Suffixes containing a can have two forms:
a or
e.
The the suffix
-den -dan from was shown as an example.
Suffixes containg the generic letter -
I has four forms
-i -ı -u -ü.
The suffix
-im my harmonizes its own vowel to any of
-i, -ı, -u, ü to mirror the last vowel of the word it is suffixed to.
All suffixes with an internal
-i- vowel follow this vowel harmony.
The suffix
-im follows words whose last vowel is
-e or
-i. The suffix
-ım follows words whose last vowel is
-a or
-ı. The suffix
-üm follows words whose last vowel is
-ö or
-ü. The suffix-
um follows words whose last vowel is
-o or
-u. The Vowel of the Suffix
-im -ım -um -üm my is dropped to prevent two vowels occurring together. When adding
-im my (or the other Possessive Adjectives) to a word which ends in a vowel: Only the shortened suffix
-m, -n, -miz, -niz is added. This prevents two vowels occurring together. The third person singular suffix
a bare vowel
-i. It uses buffer letter
-s- in order to keep two vowels apart. It preseves the original root word and decomes
‑is ‑sı‑sü ‑su.
In addition;
Turkish grammar does not use classical grammar nomenclature.
The subject definite article "the" does not exist in Turkish.
There is no ""the" man" as the subject definite article.
"the" is already understood as substantive and does not need a definite article.
There is an object definite article "the" in Turkish. You can see the source You are not allowed to view links.
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I'm sure this may sound confusing to some of you.
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As a result, when thinking in English and judging the work done for Turkish, you should consider that the experience of preparing transcriptions for Turkish may not match your expectations.
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