Abstract
Gündoğmuş (former name: Eskere (< Greek kserê “dry rock”) is one of the highland districts located 153 km east of Antalya and 32 km south of the Akseki-Konya road. Although the Mediterranean climate is dominant in the district, winters are harsher and summers are cooler compared to other districts with coastlines.
Gündoğmuş district of Antalya province, which is known to be densely populated by Yoruks and Turkmen, has been able to preserve its unique socio-cultural texture until today due to the fact that it cannot receive immigration from outside due to its geographical structure. However, depending on the developments in science and technology in recent years, there have been great changes in the socio-cultural structure of the district. In fact, reasons such as the penetration of the media organs into almost every house, the ease of transportation, the spread of highland tourism, and the increase in literacy rates prevent the compilation of the dialect characteristics of the region in a healthy way. Due to such reasons, Gündoğmuş dialect, like other Turkish dialects, is under the influence of Standard Turkish and quickly loses its unique phonetic and morphological features. As it is known, these dialects, which are extremely important in revealing the richness of the vocabulary of Standard Turkish, should be compiled and recorded as soon as possible before they are lost, and these compiled materials should be examined and classified in detail.
In this study, all the villages/neighborhoods of Gündoğmuş district of Antalya province were reached, and text and word compilations were made on certain subjects from the source people who were thought to reflect the dialect characteristics best. In the light of the data obtained from these compilations, the phonetic and morphological features of the region, which differ from the Standard Turkish, are listed as items. In the continuation of the study, the borders of the dialect regions were also drawn on the basis of certain dialect characteristics of the region and shown on the map.