In
1985, the Eastern Languages and Civilizations Centre started working
on an ambitious programme concerning the compilation of a Greek-Turkish
and a Turkish-Greek dictionary. As a result,
the Greek-Turkish dictionary was published in 1994 (at first by
Rodamos editions and afterwards by ELCC editions). Six years later,
it was followed by the Turkish-Greek dictionary (also by ELCC
editions).
Many
book critics in both Greece and Turkey, as well as academics and
lexicographers in other countries, have characterised the two
volumes of our dictionary a “lexicographical exploit”, as it lacks
nothing compared to other well-known and original dictionaries;
this is due to the fact that our work was based on our own data
bank, for which dozens of people worked tirelessly: Greek scholars
and linguists, Greek academics specialised in Turkology and in
Ottoman studies, Turkish linguists, Turkish academics specialised
in Modern and Classical Greek, as well as professors from universities
in Europe and in America).
An
extended group of experts from various scientific areas have also
cooperated in the compilation of our dictionary, providing us
with necessary information on every field of human knowledge and
activity (music, arts, literature, technology etc.) and having
as a result two dictionaries with multiple, well-researched entries.
The Greek-Turkish dictionary includes 40,000 words and 7,000 idioms
and proverbs, while the Turkish-Greek dictionary includes 37,000
words and 45,000 idioms and proverbs, making them a valuable and
indispensable tool. Both dictionaries are structured in a way
that allows the user to put words into context. This is the reason
that all Turkish language and civilisation universities in Greece
as well as Universities in Turkey offering Modern Greek Studies
have included our dictionaries in their bibliography or distribute
them to their students.
Textbooks
In the near future, ELCC publications plan to add to these dictionaries
a textbook bearing the title “Turkish for Greeks” which
will later on be followed by another, bearing the title “Greek
for Turks”.
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2nd
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Nasreddin
Hodja "Stories
and jokes from Asia Minor and the Hellenic World"
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