Tweet
was Hagop Martayan an Armenian his name is known to people as Hagop Dilachar cos of the Turks preety bad ha. Anyway I thought this was pretty intresting and is something not many Armenians know about so spread the word. Heres an Article I got from a website
Hagop Martayan
Hagop (Martayan) Dilaçar:
A Tribute To A Great Turkish-Armenian Turcologist
Today, we wish to bring to light from obscurity a great Turcologist of Armenian origin.
Hagop Martayan, a philologist and an expert in the science of encyclopedia, was born in Istanbul in 1895. A graduate of the American Robert College, he dedicated his entire life to the study of languages, becoming an expert in the Turkish language. He studied the etymology of Turkish words, meticulously tracing their development since their earliest recorded occurrence where they are found, tracing their transmissions from one language to another, analyzing the words into their component parts. identifying their cognates in other languages, and tracing them and their cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language.
Later. Mr. Martayan became an instructor and an administrator at Robert College. He participated in World War I as a reserve officer. Then he lived in Europe for a while. In 1932, Ataturk was impassioned on his project about the Turkish language. When he learned about Hagop Martayan, who was at that time in Bulgaria, he invited him to Turkey, and appointed him to the First Turkish Language Convention. Around that time, a statute making surnames mandatory was at the legislature. Ataturk was very impressed by the expertise of Hagop Martayan, and suggested that he take the last name Dilaçar, meaning "tongue opener", which Martayan graciously accepted.
After the Turkish Language Convention, Mr. Dilaçar became the Head Expert in the Turkish Language Association. Later, he taught languages at the universities and high schools.
In 1936, he taught for fifteen years the History of Linguistics. and General Linguistics at the School of Language, History and Geography (Dil, Tarih, Coğrafya Fakültesi) at the University of Ankara. He was the advisor to the Turkish Encyclopedia, and later became its chief editor. Mr. Dilaçar passed away on September 12, 1979 in Istanbul.
Following are some of the publications of Hagop Dilaçar:
1- Azeri Turkish (1950)
2- Western Turkish (1953)
3- The Pattern in the Spreading of the Dialects, The Classification of the Turkish Dialects (1954)
4- The General Tendencies of Strengthening and Discontinuation of the Dialects During Their Evolutions (1957)
5- Turkish Language as a State Language (1962)
He authored several articles in the Turkish Encyclopedia on language and other subjects.
Hagop Martayan Dilaçar is one of several Turkish-Armenians who rendered enormous services to the Turkish language, music, theater and architecture. On this occasion, we would like to recognize a contemporary Turkish-Armenian linguist, Pars Tuglaci, who is a prolific writer, researcher and publisher. Pars Tuglaci authored several dictionaries, and wrote on a variety of subjects about Turkey's past that brought to light the now disappeared beauties of old Istanbul.
We remember Hagop Martayan Dilaçar with respect, gratitude and admiration.
Hagop Martayan
Hagop (Martayan) Dilaçar:
A Tribute To A Great Turkish-Armenian Turcologist
Today, we wish to bring to light from obscurity a great Turcologist of Armenian origin.
Hagop Martayan, a philologist and an expert in the science of encyclopedia, was born in Istanbul in 1895. A graduate of the American Robert College, he dedicated his entire life to the study of languages, becoming an expert in the Turkish language. He studied the etymology of Turkish words, meticulously tracing their development since their earliest recorded occurrence where they are found, tracing their transmissions from one language to another, analyzing the words into their component parts. identifying their cognates in other languages, and tracing them and their cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language.
Later. Mr. Martayan became an instructor and an administrator at Robert College. He participated in World War I as a reserve officer. Then he lived in Europe for a while. In 1932, Ataturk was impassioned on his project about the Turkish language. When he learned about Hagop Martayan, who was at that time in Bulgaria, he invited him to Turkey, and appointed him to the First Turkish Language Convention. Around that time, a statute making surnames mandatory was at the legislature. Ataturk was very impressed by the expertise of Hagop Martayan, and suggested that he take the last name Dilaçar, meaning "tongue opener", which Martayan graciously accepted.
After the Turkish Language Convention, Mr. Dilaçar became the Head Expert in the Turkish Language Association. Later, he taught languages at the universities and high schools.
In 1936, he taught for fifteen years the History of Linguistics. and General Linguistics at the School of Language, History and Geography (Dil, Tarih, Coğrafya Fakültesi) at the University of Ankara. He was the advisor to the Turkish Encyclopedia, and later became its chief editor. Mr. Dilaçar passed away on September 12, 1979 in Istanbul.
Following are some of the publications of Hagop Dilaçar:
1- Azeri Turkish (1950)
2- Western Turkish (1953)
3- The Pattern in the Spreading of the Dialects, The Classification of the Turkish Dialects (1954)
4- The General Tendencies of Strengthening and Discontinuation of the Dialects During Their Evolutions (1957)
5- Turkish Language as a State Language (1962)
He authored several articles in the Turkish Encyclopedia on language and other subjects.
Hagop Martayan Dilaçar is one of several Turkish-Armenians who rendered enormous services to the Turkish language, music, theater and architecture. On this occasion, we would like to recognize a contemporary Turkish-Armenian linguist, Pars Tuglaci, who is a prolific writer, researcher and publisher. Pars Tuglaci authored several dictionaries, and wrote on a variety of subjects about Turkey's past that brought to light the now disappeared beauties of old Istanbul.
We remember Hagop Martayan Dilaçar with respect, gratitude and admiration.
Comment