Selim Sabit's Work Nahv-i Osmani and the innovations it brought to Turkish grammar studies

With the declaraton of Tanzimat, Turkish and grammar teaching in schools started to be plannedly conducted in the Ottoman state. As a natural consequence of this, numerous grammar books were written in this period. Many of these books that were composed with the purpose of proper teaching of Turkish were studied in schools as coursebooks. One of these books was Selim Sabit's Nahv-i Osmani.. In this project, Selim Sabit's Nahv-i Osmani is analyzed. The project is consisted of three chapters. In the first chapter, the life, works and importance of Selim Sabit Efendi in the history of Turkish education are mentioned. In the second chapter, concepts of "grammar" and "language", teaching of grammar, teaching of Turkish in Tanzimat period's curriculum programs and the grammar books that were written in this period are mentioned. In the third chapter Nahv-i Osmani is transliteradet to the Latin alphabet, the work is analyzed in therms of terminology and it is tried to show the innovations this work has brought to Turkish grammar. By determining the Terms an index is composed and the modern equivalents of these Terms are written; and in this way a dictionary is composed. Keywords: Grammar, Language, Tanzimat Period, Nahv, Selim Sabit.