%0 Journal Article
%T Remarks on the phonetic value of the letters ‹y› and ‹ü› in Franciscus Meninski’s Ottoman Turkish Thesaurus (1680)
%A Stachowski, Marek
%J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2012
%R 10.4467/20834624SL.12.012.0601
%N Volume 129, Issue 3
%P 189-197
%K Ottoman Turkish, historical phonology, transcription texts, graphemics, lexicography
%@ 1897-1059
%D 2012
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/remarks-on-the-phonetic-value-of-the-letters-y-and-u-in-franciscus-meninskis-ottoman-turkish-thesaurus-1680
%X Franciscus Meninski generally used the letter ‹y› as a symbol for today’s Turkish ı. However, this letter also appears in front vocalic words which contradicts the palato-velar aspect of Turkish vowel harmony. Mertol Tulum has recently attempted to show that the phonetic value of ‹y› in front vocalic words was a central, high vowel placed between the Turkish i and ı (one that would probably be rendered [ɨ] in the IPA; however, since this letter is barely visible in print, especially in the footnotes, I have decided to replace it with its Fenno-Ugristic equivalent [i] here). The present author, thus, examines Tulum’s line of reasoning and dicusses the possibility of reinterpreting the functions fulfilled by ‹y› and ‹ü› in Meninski’s work.