Middle Ottoman
English
Alternative forms
- Middle Ottoman Turkish
Proper noun
- A register of the Ottoman Turkish language typical to the time from 1501–1800 and later a chosen register, particularly seen as exclusive to an educated elite, as marked by complex syntax (lacking punctuation) and largely Persianized and Arabicized vocabulary and sentence structure.
Synonyms
- Classical Ottoman Turkish
Coordinate terms
- Old Ottoman / Old Anatolian Turkish, New Ottoman
Translations
the Turkish language in the middle period of the Ottoman Empire, of many lexical and syntactic borrowings
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