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**Ottoman Turkish** (, ; ) was the standardized register of the Turkish language used by the citizens of the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extensively, in all aspects, from Arabic and Persian, and its speakers used the Ottoman Turkish alphabet for written communication. During the peak of Ottoman power (), words of foreign origin in Turkish literature in the Ottoman Empire heavily outnumbered native Turkish words, with Arabic and Persian vocabulary accounting for up to 88% of the Ottoman vocabulary in some texts.

Consequently, Ottoman Turkish was largely unintelligible to the less-educated lower-class and to rural Turks, who continued to use  ("raw/vulgar Turkish"; compare Vulgar Latin), which used far fewer foreign loanwords and is the basis of the modern standard. The Tanzimât era (1839–1876) saw the application of the term "Ottoman" when referring to the language (  or  ); Modern Turkish uses the same terms when referring to the language of that era ( and ). More generically, the Turkish language was called   or   "Turkish".

## Grammar
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### Cases
* Nominative and Indefinite accusative/objective: -∅, no suffix.   'the lake' 'a lake',   'soup',   'night';   'he/she brought a rabbit'.
* Genitive: suffix  .   'of the pasha';   'of the book'.
* Definite accusative: suffix  :    'he/she brought the rabbit'. The variant suffix  does not occur in Ottoman Turkish orthography unlike in Modern Turkish, although it's pronounced with the vowel harmony. Thus,   'the lake' *vs.* Modern Turkish .
* Dative: suffix  :   'to the house'.
* Locative: suffix  :   'at school',   'in (the/a) cage',   'at a/the start',   'in town'. The variant suffix used in Modern Turkish  does not occur.
* Ablative: suffix  :   'from the man'.
* Instrumental: suffix or postposition  . Generally not counted as a grammatical case in modern grammars.

### Verbs 
The conjugation for the aorist tense is as follows:

## Structure
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Ottoman Turkish was highly influenced by Arabic and Persian. Arabic and Persian words in the language accounted for up to 88% of its vocabulary.

The conservation of archaic phonological features of the Arabic borrowings furthermore suggests that Arabic-incorporated Persian was absorbed into pre-Ottoman Turkic at an early stage, when the speakers were still located to the north-east of Persia, prior to the westward migration of the Islamic Turkic tribes. An additional argument for this is that Ottoman Turkish shares the Persian character of its Arabic borrowings with other Turkic languages that had even less interaction with Arabic, such as Tatar, Bashkir, and Uyghur. From the early ages of the Ottoman Empire, borrowings from Arabic and Persian were so abundant that original Turkish words were hard to find. In Ottoman, one may find whole passages in Arabic and Persian incorporated into the text. It also saw the replacement of the Perso-Arabic script with the extended Latin alphabet. The changes were meant to encourage the growth of a new variety of written Turkish that more closely reflected the spoken vernacular and to foster a new variety of spoken Turkish that reinforced Turkey's new national identity as being a post-Ottoman state.

See the list of replaced loanwords in Turkish for more examples of Ottoman Turkish words and their modern Turkish counterparts. Two examples of Arabic and two of Persian loanwords are found below.

## Legacy
Historically speaking, Ottoman Turkish is the predecessor of modern Turkish. However, the standard Turkish of today is essentially  (Turkish of Turkey) as written in the Latin alphabet and with an abundance of neologisms added, which means there are now far fewer loan words from other languages, and Ottoman Turkish was not instantly transformed into the Turkish of today. At first, it was only the script that was changed, and while some households continued to use the Arabic system in private, most of the Turkish population was illiterate at the time, making the switch to the Latin alphabet much easier. Then, loan words were taken out, and new words fitting the growing amount of technology were introduced. Until the 1960s, Ottoman Turkish was at least partially intelligible with the Turkish of that day. One major difference between Ottoman Turkish and modern Turkish is the latter's abandonment of compound word formation according to Arabic and Persian grammar rules. The usage of such phrases still exists in modern Turkish but only to a very limited extent and usually in specialist contexts; for example, the Persian genitive construction  (which reads literally as "the preordaining of the divine" and translates as "divine dispensation" or "destiny") is used, as opposed to the normative modern Turkish construction,  (literally, "divine preordaining").

In 2014, Turkey's Education Council decided that Ottoman Turkish should be taught in Islamic high schools and as an elective in other schools, a decision backed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who said the language should be taught in schools so younger generations do not lose touch with their cultural heritage.

## Writing system
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Most Ottoman Turkish was written in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet (), a variant of the Perso-Arabic script. The Armenian, Greek and Rashi script of Hebrew were sometimes used by Armenians, Greeks and Jews. (See Karamanli Turkish, a dialect of Ottoman written in the Greek script.)

## Numbers
## Transliterations 
The transliteration system of the İslâm Ansiklopedisi has become a *de facto* standard in Oriental studies for the transliteration of Ottoman Turkish texts.  Concerning transcription the New Redhouse, Karl Steuerwald and Ferit Develioğlu dictionaries have become standard. Another transliteration system is the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG), which provides a transliteration system for any Turkic language written in Arabic script. There are not many differences between the İA and the DMG transliteration systems.

## See also
*Old Anatolian Turkish language
*Culture of the Ottoman Empire
*List of Persian loanwords in Turkish

## Notes
## References
## Further reading
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*   Online copies: https://books.google.com/books?id=eS8rAAAAYAAJ, https://archive.org/details/ottomanturkishc00hagogoog, https://archive.org/details/ottomanturkishc00hagogoog
*  Online copies from Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=bYqvxt5wQrcC, https://archive.org/details/apracticalgramm00wellgoog, https://books.google.com/books?id=MD1bAAAAQAAJ
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* Lewis, Geoffrey. The Jarring Lecture 2002. "The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success".
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* Mehmet Hakkı Suçin. ''Qawâ'id al-Lugha al-Turkiyya li Ghair al-Natiqeen Biha'' (Turkish Grammar for Arabs; adapted from Mehmet Hengirmen's *Yabancılara Türkçe Dilbilgisi*), Engin Yayınevi, 2003).
* Mehmet Hakkı Suçin. ''Atatürk'ün Okuduğu Kitaplar: Endülüs Tarihi'' (Books That Atatürk Read: History of Andalucia; purification from the Ottoman Turkish, published by Anıtkabir Vakfı, 2001).
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## External links
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*Ottoman Text Archive Project
*Ottoman Turkish Language: Resources – University of Michigan
*Ottoman Turkish Language Texts
*Ottoman-Turkish-English Open Dictionary
*Ottoman<>Turkish Dictionary – University of Pamukkale You can use ? character instead of an unknown letter. It provides results from Arabic and Persian dictionaries, too.
*Ottoman<>Turkish Dictionary – ihya.org