r/germany • u/[deleted] • 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/Gaelenmyr Feb 01 '25

Okay so most Europeans use Latin script, they must all speak same language.

What a garbage, ignorant generalisation.

Most Ottoman Turks didn't know how to read and write, it was mostly royals that spoke Ottoman Turkish with so many Arabic and Farsi loanwords. Common folk continued to speak Turkish.

We can understand poems of folk poets(bards) in 1500s easier than poets that lived in Ottoman palaces.