Ottoman Turkish

Ottoman Turkish
لسان عثمانى Lisân-ı Osmânî
Ottoman Turkish written in Nastaliq style (لسان عثمانى)
Region	Ottoman Empire
Ethnicity	Ottoman Turks
Era	c. 15th century; developed into modern Turkish in 1928[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz Western Oghuz Ottoman Turkish
Early form	Old Anatolian Turkish
Writing system	Ottoman Turkish alphabet
Official status
Official language in	Beylik of Tunis Cretan State Emirate of Jabal Shammar Khedivate of Egypt Ottoman Empire Provisional National Government of the Southwestern Caucasus Provisional Government of Western Thrace Turkish Provisional Government Turkey (until 1928)[a]
Language codes
ISO 639-2	ota
ISO 639-3	ota
Linguist List	ota
Glottolog	otto1234

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Ottoman Turkish (Ottoman Turkish: لِسانِ عُثمانى, 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. During the peak of Ottoman power (c. 16th century CE), words of foreign origin in Turkish literature in the Ottoman Empire heavily outnumbered native Turkish words,^[3] with Arabic and Persian vocabulary accounting for up to 88% of the Ottoman vocabulary in some texts.^[4]

Consequently, 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.^[5] The Tanzimât era (1839–1876) saw the application of the term "Ottoman" when referring to the language^[6] (لسان عثمانی lisân-ı Osmânî or عثمانليجه 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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