Adaptation Rates of West Old Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian: A Quantitative Study

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dc.contributor.authorYalçınkaya, Ali Can
dc.contributor.authorParapatıcs, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorSzentgyorgyı, Szil Rd
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-09T10:53:14Z
dc.date.available2025-03-09T10:53:14Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentİstanbul Beykent Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThe study presents and evaluates the phonetic adaptations of 377 West old Turkic loanwords in Hungarian by measuring the phonetic distance with the Levenshtein distance formula. A more sensitive edit distance algorithm is proposed with a reduced operation cost for less distant assimilations. A “distinctive feature” weighted approach is adopted for the task, and the set of phonemes concerning Turkic and Hungarian languages are evaluated and categorized in a distinctive feature matrix by their features. Reconstructed WOT words in their latest form before the borrowing, were used for the data. These are treated as the origins of the relevant vocabulary in Hungarian. The adaptation rate is quantified for each word pair and overall. In addition to this, several patterns in terms of regular adaptations are discussed, and some problematic issues regarding the calculation of the distance between some particular sounds in both languages are brought out. While this paper is a continuation of the ongoing trend of emphasizing refinement approaches to operation costs in Levenshtein algorithms, it is also an attempt to formulate loanword adaptation by using linguistic typology. Turkic languages and Hungarian are two sides that shared historically the same sprachbund for a long period and are known to have some mutualities such as agglutinative structures, harmonical features, rich vowel inventories, etc, this study also holds the motivation to be a contribution to the field of contact linguistics.
dc.identifier.doi10.7827/TurkishStudies.64798
dc.identifier.endpage1427
dc.identifier.issn2667-5641
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage1395
dc.identifier.trdizinid1248108
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.64798
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/1248108
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12662/4745
dc.identifier.volume18
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofTurkish Studies - Language and Literature
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_TR_20250310
dc.subjectContact linguistics
dc.subjectdistinctive features
dc.subjectHungarian
dc.subjectHistorical linguistics
dc.subjectdiachronic linguistics
dc.subjectloanword adaptation
dc.subjectOghur
dc.subjectLevenshtein distance
dc.subjectoperation cost
dc.subjectphonetic assimilation
dc.subjectedit distance
dc.titleAdaptation Rates of West Old Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian: A Quantitative Study
dc.typeArticle

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