Jezik štampe turske narodnosti u Jugoslaviji (list "TAN' )
Language of the Press ofthe Turkish Nationality in Yugoslavia (the "TAN"Newspaper)

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we have analysed the language of the »Tan« newspaper from its first issue in 1969 tilI the end of 1981. Analysing and comparing the language of »Tan« with the language of the daily papers in Turkey (mainly »Milliyet« and »Cumhuriyet«) we have tried to find out how great are the differences between the standard Turkish and the Turkish language spoken in Yugoslavia. We have registrated a number of examples of wrong use of idioms, imitations of the Serbo-Croation language models, misusage of the verbal noun »-me« and the personal participie, direct and indirect object, incorrect use of some cases, verb aspects, and some stylistic and orthographic mistakes. In the same time we made the correction of the registrated mistakes The analysed corpus gives evidence not only of interference of languages in contact, but also of insufficient knowledge of the mother tongue. Some exeptions from the language norm (mostly in lexics) are so common in this Turkish speaking community of Kosovo that we had to consider them not as mistakes but as a peculiarity of the Turkish language spoken in that part of Yugoslavia.

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