Deconstructing Kemal's Language Reform Policy
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This video provides commentary and analysis to the flawed Kemalist language reform. In spite of all his efforts, Arabic and Persian prevail to this day in the Turkish language, as they were with Ottoman Turkish
Turkish (1930s) — language and writing system were reformed starting in the 1920s, to the point that the older language is called by a different name, Ottoman Turkish. The Ottoman alphabet was based on the Arabic alphabet, which was replaced in 1928 by the new, Latin-based Turkish alphabet. Loanwords of Persian and Arabic origin were dropped in favor of native Turkish words or new coinages based on Turkic roots.
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