Old Anatolian Turkish

Not to be confused with Old Turkic or Karamanli Turkish.
Old Anatolian Turkish
Old Anatolian Turkic
تُركجَ
Native toAnatolia
EraEmerged in Anatolia late 11th century. Developed into Early Ottoman Turkish and Ajem-Turkic c. 15th century[1]
Turkic
Ottoman Turkish alphabet augmented with ḥarakāt[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
1ca Old Anatolian Turkish
GlottologNone

Old Anatolian Turkish,[a] also referred to as Old Anatolian Turkic[2][3][4] (Turkish: Eski Anadolu Türkçesi, Arabic script: اسکی انادولو تورکچه‌سی[b]), was the form of the Turkish language spoken in Anatolia from the 11th to 15th centuries. It developed into Early Ottoman Turkish. It was written in the Arabic script. Unlike in later Ottoman Turkish, short-vowel diacritics were used.[5]

It had no official status until 1277, when Mehmet I of Karaman declared a firman in an attempt[6] to break the dominance of Persian:[7]

  1. ^ a b Old Anatolian Turkish at MultiTree on the Linguist List
  2. ^ Bodroglieti, A. (1972). "On Modern Turkish Üstünkörü and Yüzükoyun". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 26 (1). Akadémiai Kiadó: 145. JSTOR 23657232.
  3. ^ Schönig, C. (2000). "Some formal types of Turkic relative clause equivalents". In Aslı Göksel; Celia Kerslake (eds.). Studies on Turkish and Turkic Languages. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 200. ISBN 978-3-447-04293-2.
  4. ^ Erdal, Marcel (2004). A Grammar of Old Turkic. p. 314.
  5. ^ Ergin, Muharrem, Osmanlıca Dersleri, BOĞAZİÇİ YAYINLARI, ISBN 975-451-053-9 [page needed]
  6. ^ Leiser, Gary (2010). "The Turks in Anatolia before the Ottomans". In Fierro, Maribel (ed.). The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 2: The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-521-83957-0. His ally the Qaramanid Muhammad (r. 660–77/1261–78) did capture Konya in 675/1276 and attempted to replace Persian with Turkish as the official government language.
  7. ^ Yazıcı, Tahsin (2010). "Persian authors of Asia Minor part 1". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Persian language and culture were actually so popular and dominant in this period that in the late 14th century, Moḥammad (Meḥmed) Bey, the founder and the governing head of the Qaramanids, published an official edict to end this supremacy, saying that: "The Turkish language should be spoken in courts, palaces, and at official institutions from now on!"
  8. ^ Culture and Tourism Ministry Karaman page (in Turkish) Archived August 11, 2014, at the Wayback Machine


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