In this study, a work titled Kitâb-ı Melhame, written in the 16th century, will be evaluated in terms of the reflection of colloquial language on written language, alphabet differences, phraseology, and interactions among dialects. Kitâb-ı Melhame was written by Pervane bin Abdullah in Sofia in hijri 960 (Gregorian 1552), and it is a 145-foil prose work, 9 verses in each foil. Melhame refers to the type of works which prophesies the future by observing sun and moon eclipses, appearance of the new moon, bizarre snowing or raining, earthquakes and streak of lightning. Kitâb-ı Melhame was written in the style of vowel point naksh. The language is divided into two as spoken and written. The written language is the moulded format of the spoken language. Spoken language is one which people use to communicate in daily life. As this language is natural, it is not paid attention whether the sentences are grammatically true, the words are in syntax, or the saying is right. For this reason, tense and word differences occur. Colloquial language is the most important source and culture element that supplies written language. Thus, colloquial language is seen in written works even it is rare. In the text we analysed, there are some changes in the written formats of words because of the effect of Turkish language. In this work, XVI. dec polish written in the XVIII century, the book-i Melhame was evaluated in terms of the reflection of the spoken language in the written language (main, individual, bilingual), the attempt to write quoted words with the Turkish spelling / spelling difference (sunet, úuvatlana), the feature of utterance (daòra) and inter-dialect interaction (şivşek, şüşşek, àaziz).
Kitâb-ı Melhame, colloquial language, written language, phraseology.