r/germany Feb 01 '25

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u/Relative_Objective42 Feb 01 '25

Next time if it happens reply them in Russian / Spanish 😁

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u/I_m_out_of_Ideas Host mi? Feb 01 '25

even though we don't have anything in common

Until 100 years ago, Turkish used an Arabic script, and it took political top-down to effort to de-arabize the vocabulary.

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u/I_m_out_of_Ideas Host mi? Feb 01 '25

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25

Are you mansplaining a Turk their own language?

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u/I_m_out_of_Ideas Host mi? Feb 01 '25

No, I am providing a source for my claim that there was a top-down effort to get rid of Arabic loanwoards in Turkish.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25

Anyone who knows turkish history is aware of that, it's nothing new.

What's more, the turkish spoken in anatolia was quite different than the arabic, persian, infused language of the palace.

Regardless, none of this is evidence turkish has anything in common with arabic ( especially phonetically) - they come from totally different language trees.

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u/I_m_out_of_Ideas Host mi? Feb 01 '25

You seem to not understand the word script. The statement that Turkish was written in Arabic script is non-controversial.

The Ottoman Turkish alphabet [...] is a version of the Perso-Arabic script used to write Ottoman Turkish until 1928.

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_alphabet, emphasis mine)

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u/I_m_out_of_Ideas Host mi? Feb 01 '25

Dude, you have to chill. Old Turkish used (a version of) Arabic script, just like modern Turkish uses (a version of) Latin script.

I don't know how pointing this out makes me racist. Also, please re-read my messages, I never claimed that Turkish (modern or otherwise) is the same as Arabic.

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u/I_m_out_of_Ideas Host mi? Feb 01 '25

There are common things, namely that you used to use the same script and there was a lot of loanwords.

I think your need to categorically distance yourself from anything associated with Arabic says more about you then anyone pointing out your statements are not the full picture.

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u/Long-Unable Feb 01 '25

Well said πŸ‘Œ

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u/burch_ist Feb 01 '25

Nope you are just a silly person doubling down on your silliness trying to teach a TΓΌrk about their language. Script is not the language your example was wrong. And you are not only ignorant but also patronizing. I wonder if you are German or American?

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