Research on Iraq Turkmen Turkish's Amerli dialect

Iraqi Turkmen Turkish, which is in the Eastern wing of Western Turkish and included in the Azeri field of Turkish, involves the dialects spoken by Iraqi Turks. The most distinctive difference between the provinces, districts, and towns that speak Iraqi Turkmen Turkish, which has the characteristic of classification, is manifested in the second-person possessive suffixes of singular and plural. In some regions in Turkmeneli; While the 2nd person singular possessive suffix is used as [+v], the 2nd person plural possessive suffix in the form [+vIz], the other regions use the 2nd person singular possessive suffix [+y], the 2nd person plural possessive suffix in the form [+yIz]. Based on this nuance, the dialects of Iraqi Turkmen Turkish are classified under two main groups "V" and "Y". In this study, the phonetic and morphological information of the Amerli dialect, which is included in the "Y" group of Iraqi Turkmen Turkish, has been tried to be determined. The thesis is limited to the dialect of the Amerli region and covers the phonetics and morphology of the region in question. The language material on which the examinations were made was compiled and recorded by interviewing the source people in the Amerli region. Then, after these sound recordings were deciphered in the digital environment, they were written as texts and analyzed to reveal the characteristics of the Amerli dialect. Historical Turkish Dialects were used by determining the developmental stages of words in the necessary parts of the phonetics section. The first part of the thesis consists of an introduction and general information, the second part consists of phonetics (phonetics), the third part consists of morphology (morphology), and the fourth part consists of the results, texts, and a comparative dictionary covering the vocabulary of the Amerli dialect. The aim of the study is to reveal the phonetics and morphology of the Amerli dialect and to document the cultural heritage of the Iraqi Turks in the languages. In addition to these, this study is important because it provides scientific data about the Amerli dialect, as it will form the basis for the studies on the comparison of the Amerli dialect with other Turkish dialects. Keywords: Amerli Dialect, Iraqi Turkmen Turkish, Oghuz Language Group, Phonology, Morphology