Ottoman Turkish

Ottoman Turkish /ˈɒtəmən/, or the Ottoman Turkish language (لسان عثمانى‎ Lisân-ı Osmânî) (also known as تركچه Türkçe or تركی Türkî, "Turkish"), is a type of Turkish language that was used in the Ottoman Empire between the 13th and 20th centuries. It was heavily influenced by Arabic and Persian. It was written in the Arabic and Persian alphabets. When the Ottoman Empire was at its most powerful, Arabic and Persian words made up to 88% of its vocabulary.^[3] Words of Arabic and Persian origins heavily outnumbered native Turkish words.^[4]

Ottoman Turkish
لسان عثمانى lisân-ı Osmânî
Region	Ottoman Empire
Era	c. 15th century - developed into Modern Turkish in 1928[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz[2] Ottoman Turkish
Early form	Old Anatolian Turkish
Writing system	Arabic and Persian alphabets
Official status
Official language in	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)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	ota
ISO 639-3	ota
Linguist List	ota
Glottolog	None

Related pages

• Turkish language
• Turkic languages