While the Arabic Persian Greek and Slavic elements in Turkish have received monographic
treatment the Armenian elements have not up to now been treated comprehensively. The present
survey aims to fill this gap in Turcological studies. Building on previous work by Adjarian and
others and making full use of lexicographic tools for both languages the author has
established a corpus of 800 Armenian loanwords in Turkish (defining Turkish as the dialect
continuum stretching from the Balkans to Azerbaijan). Several hundred more words uncertain or
doubtful for various reasons are assigned to appendices. The introduction contains analyses of
the loan vocabulary along geographical historical phonological and topical lines. A
bibliography a comprehensive index and a note on Turkish loanwords in Armenian complete the
work.
