Tahtacıs are an Alevi-Turkmen community with a closed society structure, settled in the south and west of Anatolia (from the Taurus Mountains to the Kaz Mountains). Çanakkale including about thirty Tahtacı settlements within its borders, is one of the provinces where this community is densely populated. In Çanakkale, besides the central district, there are Tahtacı villages and sub-village settlements in Ezine, Ayvacık and Bayramiç districts, which seem to have been established mostly around the Kaz Mountains. The ancestors of today's Tahtacıs used to do woodwork. Consequently, due to the occupation they had, they received that surname. However, their grandchildren today, either do nor or cannot do woodwork, they do not prefer to live in villages due to many economic and social reasons and migrate to city centers. The decrease in the number of people living in villages with the separation of young and adult populations paves the way for the death of the Tahtacı dialect, like other Turkey Turkish dialects. However, Tahtacıs have a dialect that differs from the local dialects in some ways and language differences have been preserved until today thanks to the effect of the closed society structure. In this study, the distinctive linguistic properties of the Tahtacı dialect of Çanakkale province will be discussed and examined based on the compilation of texts available.

Tahtacıs, Tahtacı dialect, Tahtacıs of Çanakkale, language properties.