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Preferred term

otaOttoman Turkish  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Ottoman Turkish language or Ottoman language ( ) is the variety of the Turkish language that was used for administrative and literary purposes in the Ottoman Empire. It borrows extensively from Arabic and Persian, and was written in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet. Consequently, Ottoman Turkish was largely unintelligible to the less-educated lower-class and rural Turks, who continued to use kaba Türkçe ("vulgar Turkish"), which used far fewer foreign loanwords and which is the basis of the modern Turkish language. The Tanzimât era saw the application of the term "Ottoman" when referring to the language ( or ) and the same distinction is made in Modern Turkish ( and ).

Entry terms

  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)
  • Ottoman Turkish language
  • Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • ota

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • ota

ISO 639-3 code

  • ota

Notation

  • ota

In other languages

  • Turc osmanli

    French

  • turc ottoman
  • turc ottoman (1500-1928)
  • Osmanisch

    German

  • Osmanische Sprache
  • turco ottomano

    Italian

  • Lingua turca ottomana
  • turco otomano

    Portuguese

  • Língua turca otomana
  • Turco otomano

    Spanish

  • turco otomano

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ota

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