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Old Anatolian Turkish
1000s–1400s stage of the Turkish language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Old Turkic or Karamanli Turkish.
Old Anatolian Turkish[lower-alpha 1], also referred to as Old Anatolian Turkic[2][3][4] (Turkish: Eski Anadolu Türkçesi[lower-alpha 2]), was the form of the Turkish language spoken in Anatolia from the 11th to 15th centuries. It developed into Early Ottoman Turkish. It was written in the Arabic script. Unlike in later Ottoman Turkish, short-vowel diacritics were used.[5]
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Old Anatolian Turkish | |
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Old Anatolian Turkic | |
تُركجَ | |
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Native to | Anatolia |
Era | Emerged in Anatolia late 11th century. Developed into Early Ottoman Turkish and Ajem-Turkic c. 15th century[1] |
Turkic
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Ottoman Turkish alphabet augmented with ḥarakāt[1] | |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
1ca Old Anatolian Turkish | |
Glottolog | None |
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It had no official status until 1277, when Mehmet I of Karaman declared a firman in an attempt[6] to break the dominance of Persian:[7]