This article was originally written in Turkish and has been translated into English with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). The translation may contain errors; the original Turkish version is the authoritative text.
Throughout history many languages have emerged, but some of them have disappeared while others have survived. Languages disappear when nations or communities lose their independence. The most important way to destroy a country’s national unity is first to destroy its language through various measures, because the most important mortar of national identity and national unity is the mother tongue.
From the studies and research of biologists we learn that early humans did not know how to use the structure of the throat to communicate with their kin. They used it only as part of the digestive system, naturally, to survive: as a means of breathing and eating. After many long years they began to make simple sounds and tried to express many concepts with them. And after working at this for quite some time and passing through this apprenticeship, they achieved the joy of speech.
Speech is the composing, through sounds, of all the thoughts formed in the human brain, from the simplest to the most complex, given various colours and depths. That is why we compose speech by using our breath and our voice correctly, beautifully and expressively, and by producing each sound with the necessary and correct timing. The aim here is to free speech from a single tone and make it polyphonic, to free it from monotony and give it depth.
It is useful to look at this composing in two stages. The first is the thought formed in the brain, and the second is the store of knowledge that composes and enriches it. By bringing these two functions together we create the text to be voiced. The second stage is the voicing of this text, that is, the act of speaking itself.
Dear readers, I will share with you later what kind of movement speech is.