The Spread of the Turkish Language and the Black Sea Dialect

Episode 79 of the Turkish History Podcast, regularly hosted by Chris Gratien, a PhD candidate from Georgetown University, discusses the spread of the Turkish language and the Black Sea Dialect.  This particular podcast is co-hosted by Bernt Brendemoen, a professor of Turkology at the University of Oslo, in Norway.  Or as the podcast itself describes, it "the emergence of the Turkish dialect of the Black Sea region, its relationship with early Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish as well as Pontic Greek, and what it can tell us about the evolution of the modern Turkish language (Brendemoen)."

The first few minutes of the 37 minute podcast talks about how the Turkish dialect that started developing in the isolated, mountainous, Black Sea region developed separately that other Turkish Languages, which were subject to outside influences, such as the spread of Greek, Persian, Roman, Byzantine, and Arabic cultures in the Anatolia region.

The podcast also talks about the difference in vowel and general pronunciation difference that have developed between modern Anatolian and Black Sea Turkish, as well as comparing it to Classical Ottoman Turkish.

The full podcast can be found at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/11/history-turkish-language-dialects-turkic-greek-influence.html

 "The Spread of Turkish Language and the Black Sea Dialects," Bernt Brendemoen and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 79 (November 16, 2012)