Osmanlıca İmla Kılavuzu 2.1.0

About

The “Osmânlıca İmlâ Kılavuzu,” published by Hayrât Vakfı in August 2016, has swiftly established itself as a valuable resource in our daily lives, especially in the context of rapid technological advancements. Now available as a mobile application, this tool aims to facilitate access to a key that allows us to explore the codes of our ancient civilization by ensuring the correct writing and pronunciation of our words.

This application provides a more efficient means to reach this essential resource, which is instrumental in promoting the learning and dissemination of Ottoman Turkish. The initiative of the vakıf has already reached one million individuals through their efforts, and leveraging modern technology holds the promise of expanding this reach further, enabling more people to benefit from it.

Developed as the result of extensive research, this work encompasses both technical and content-oriented features designed to serve a broad audience. Below are detailed descriptions of its functionalities and characteristics.

Application Features:

• Offline mode—operates without internet connection
• Search capabilities for Turkish and Ottoman Turkish terms
• Smart search function that finds words even if partially typed or misspelled
• Use of "?" in place of unreadable Ottoman characters for easier word retrieval
• Regular automatic updates via internet
• Copy and share information by scrolling through lines
• Displays a new word upon each startup or search
• Pull-down gesture in sleep mode to fetch a new term

Imlâ Kılavuzu Features:

• Includes over 110,000 words
• Based on data from the Turkish Language Association (Türk Dil Kurumu)
• Classification of foreign words by language origin
• Names of provinces and sanjaks during the Ottoman Empire (e.g., Kûtü’l-Emâre)
• Over 10,000 personal names
• City names within Turkey
• District names across Turkey
• Country names with capitals listed in parentheses
• Arabic compound expressions
• Persian compound expressions
• Proper spelling for verbal nouns (masdar) and imperative forms in Turkish words
• Osmânlıca representations of words borrowed from 40 languages into Turkish (orthography)
• Naming conventions for compound structures in Turkish
• Sensitivity to consonant softening phenomena
• Easiness in writing commonly used Arabic/Persian compounds in Turkish (e.g., "harcırah")
• Preservation of old Turkish vocabulary elements
• A concise lexicon to distinguish words with identical spellings in Turkish
• Complete transcription-based spelling for all foreign words