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Ottoman Turkish

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How sounds Ottoman Turkish Language from begin 15th century?

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A Kuwaiti historian angers Turkey and reveals the ugly face of the Ottomans

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Ottoman Turkish War Song Mehter

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Turkey’s Last Remaining Monument of the Ottoman Empire

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Ataturk abolishes the Ottoman Caliphate and creates modern, secular Turkey

Ottoman Turkish, or the Ottoman language, is the variety of the Turkish language that was used in the Ottoman Empire. It borrows, in all aspects, extensively from Arabic and Persian, and it was written in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet. During the peak of Ottoman power, Persian and Arabic vocabulary accounted for up to 88% of the Ottoman vocabulary, while words of foreign origins heavily outnumbered native Turkish words.
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