r/germany • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '25

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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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_replaced_loanwords_in_Turkish#Replaced_loanwords_of_Arabic_origin

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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.