Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
BILIG, sa.69, ss.89-126, 2014 (SSCI, Scopus, TRDizin)
This article deals with the investigation of terms in Turkish geography textbooks. A statistical analysis shows that before the terminology reform in 1937, the terminology in geography texts scanned consisted of up to 94% of Arabic terms, with the remaining terms being either Turkish (3%), or terms derived from Western languages, such as French, Greek and/or Latin (3%). However, just after the terminology reform in 1937, Arabic terms accounted for only 53% of the terminology, 33% were Turkish, 7% were from Western languages and 7% were hybrids. The desired effect of the efforts of the Turkish Linguistic Society were felt as recently as 1985 when Arabic terms were found to have fallen to 10%, while Turkish terms increased to 70%. However, it is interesting to observe that Western language and hybrid terms also increased to 10% over the same period.