Ottoman Turkish | |
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لسان عثمانی Lisân-ı Osmânî | |
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Region | Ottoman Empire |
Ethnicity | Ottoman Turks |
Era | c. 15th century; developed into modern Turkish in 1928[1] |
Turkic
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Ottoman Turkish alphabet | |
Official status | |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | ota |
ISO 639-3 | ota |
ota | |
Glottolog | otto1234 |
![]() The Ottoman Empire was at its peak, Ottoman Turkish culture including the language also developed in the conquered areas |
Ottoman Turkish (Ottoman Turkish: لِسانِ عُثمانی, romanized: Lisân-ı Osmânî, Turkish pronunciation: [liˈsaːnɯ osˈmaːniː]; Turkish: Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language in the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extensively, in all aspects, from Arabic and Persian. It was written in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet. Ottoman Turkish was largely unintelligible to the less-educated lower-class and to rural Turks, who continued to use kaba Türkçe ("raw/vulgar Turkish"; compare Vulgar Latin and Demotic Greek), which used far fewer foreign loanwords and is the basis of the modern standard.[3] The Tanzimât era (1839–1876) saw the application of the term "Ottoman" when referring to the language[4] (لسان عثمانی lisân-ı Osmânî or عثمانلیجه Osmanlıca); Modern Turkish uses the same terms when referring to the language of that era (Osmanlıca and Osmanlı Türkçesi). More generically, the Turkish language was called تركچه Türkçe or تركی Türkî "Turkish".
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