Lehçelerinde

Lehçelerinde is a Turkish grammatical form that conveys the idea of “in its dialects” or “in their dialects.” It builds on the noun lehçe (dialect) by using the plural form lehçeler and the locative suffix, producing a phrase that marks location within the dialectal varieties of a language or a speech community. The exact referent—whether the dialects of a specific language, a particular region, or a group of speakers—depends on the surrounding context.

In usage, lehçelerinde is common in linguistic writing and dialectology. It is employed when describing how features of a word, pronunciation, vocabulary, or grammar differ across dialects. For example, a sentence such as “Türkçenin lehçelerinde farklı telaffuzlar görülebilir” means “There can be different pronunciations across Turkish dialects.” The construction is characteristic of Turkish but the underlying idea—talking about variation within dialects—is a standard topic in many languages, where analogous forms can be used to refer to dialectal differences in specific languages or communities.

The term signals a focus on regional or social variation within a language and is frequently found in scholarly discussions of language change, regional speech, and historical linguistics. For readers, recognizing lehçelerinde helps situate observations about sound change, lexicon, or syntax within the system of a language’s dialects. See also dialect, dialectology, and the broader study of Turkish language varieties.