Kadrî of Pergamon 16th century Turkish linguist

Linguistics

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, author of the first grammar book on Ottoman language.

Although little is known about the life of Kadrî, it is assumed that he was born in Bergama

Bergama

Bergama is a populous district, as well as the center city of the same district, in İzmir Province in western Turkey. By excluding İzmir's metropolitan area, it is one of the prominent districts of the province in terms of population and is largely urbanized at the rate of 53,6 per cent...

 (Pergamon) and later moved to Constantinople (Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

). In Constantinople, around 1530-1531 (Hijri 937), he wrote Müyessire el-'Ulûm, his famous work on the grammar of the Turkish language. It was the first work to deal with the grammar of Ottoman language. In addition, the fact that it covered all elementary grammar rules of the Turkish language and structure made it an important work for the linguistic history of the Turkish language.