Linguistic Gap Analysis — Luke (Turkish)

Continuing prior baselines’ findings: Turkish handles Luke’s narrative and poetic material (the canticles, the parables) with precision. This package identifies one genuine associative-overlap risk (cennet) requiring the same qualification discipline as kader and amel elsewhere in this Language Package.

Terms requiring careful qualification

• Paradise (cennet, παράδεισος, 23:43): a genuine associative-overlap risk — the Turkish word is the same one used for the Qur’anic eschatological destination, requiring explicit disambiguation of the referent (immediate presence with Christ) rather than assumed shared meaning, the same category of gap as kader elsewhere in this Language Package.
• The Nazareth Manifesto’s “yoksullara” (the poor, πτωχοῖς, 4:18): no vocabulary gap, but a structural clarity requirement — must retain its concrete economic sense, distinct from Matthew’s more spiritualized “ruhta yoksul” (poor in spirit).

Terms requiring sensitivity notes rather than compounding

• The Good Samaritan (iyi Samiriyeli, 10:25-37) and the Pharisee and tax collector (Ferisi ve vergi görevlisi, 18:9-14): linguistically adequate; carry the same historical-sensitivity discipline already established for comparable material in the Matthew package, at correspondingly lower severity here.

Terms with no gap at all — and one genuine asset

• Kayıp oğul, zengin adam ve Lazar: precise, well-established renderings requiring no gap-filling strategy.
• The canticles (Magnificat, Benedictus, Nunc Dimittis): Turkish’s existing Protestant/Catholic liturgical tradition, though smaller than some language traditions in this pipeline, already provides natural, singable renderings for these texts, a genuine asset for any future liturgical or devotional use of this material.

Gap-filling strategy

Where Luke presents an associative-overlap risk (cennet) or a historical-sensitivity risk (the Pharisee and tax collector parable), this Language Package documents the framing requirement explicitly in translation_memory.json and 02_cultural_context.md, following the same contextual-containment strategy established in prior packages.

Coverage confirmation

Covers linguistic-gap material relevant across chapters 4, 10, 15-16, 18, and 22-23; other chapters introduce no new gap beyond what is already addressed under the doctrine and sensitivity notes elsewhere in this package or reused from the Matthew/Mark packages for triple-tradition material.