Ottoman Turkish alphabet
Arabic-based script for Ottoman Turkish / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ottoman Turkish alphabet (Ottoman Turkish: الفبا, elifbâ) is a version of the Perso-Arabic script used to write Ottoman Turkish until 1928, when it was replaced by the Latin-based modern Turkish alphabet.
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Ottoman Turkish alphabet | |
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Script type | |
Time period | 1299–1928 |
Direction | Right-to-left script |
Languages | Ottoman Turkish |
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ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Arab (160), Arabic |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Arabic |
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Though Ottoman Turkish was primarily written in this script, non-Muslim Ottoman subjects sometimes wrote it in other scripts, including Armenian, Greek, Latin and Hebrew alphabets.