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Ottoman language

Ottoman Turkish
لسان عثمانىlisân-ı Osmânî
Region Ottoman Empire
Era c. 15th century - developed into Modern Turkish in 1928
Turkic
Early form
Ottoman Turkish alphabet
Official status
Official language in
Cretan State
Khedivate of Egypt
Ottoman Empire
Provisional National Government of the Southwestern Caucasus
Provisional Government of Western Thrace
Turkish Provisional Government
Turkey (Until 1928)
Language codes
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3
Linguist list
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Glottolog None

Ottoman Turkish /ˈɒtəmən/, or the Ottoman language (لسان عثمانى‎Lisân-ı Osmânî) (also known as تركجهTürkçe or تركیTürkî, "Turkish"), 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 its vocabulary, while words of Arabic origins heavily outnumbered native Turkish words.

Consequently, Ottoman Turkish was largely unintelligible to the less-educated lower-class and rural Turks, who continued to use kaba Türkçe ("raw/vulgar Turkish", as in Vulgar Latin), which used far fewer foreign loanwords and is the basis of the modern Turkish language. The Tanzimât era saw the application of the term "Ottoman" when referring to the language (لسان عثمانیlisân-ı Osmânî or عثمانليجهOsmanlıca) and the same distinction is made in Modern Turkish (Osmanlıca and Osmanlı Türkçesi).


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