About this title: This is the first full account of the transformation of Ottoman Turkish into modern Turkish. It is based on the author's knowledge, experience and continuing study of the language, history, and people of Turkey. That transformation of the Turkish language is probably the most thorough-going piece of linguistics engineering in history. Its prelude came in 1928, when the Arabo-Persian alphabet was outlawed and replaced by the Latin alphabet. It began in earnest in 1930 when Ataturk declared: Turkish is one of the richest of languages. It needs only to be used with discrimination. The Turkish ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780199256693ISBN:0199256691
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 234x156 mm. (208) this is a trenchant, witty, scholarly, and sometimes hilarious account of the most radical language reform in history. it tells the story of an extraordinary episode in the history of turkey and throws new light on the conflict between secular and religious power in the twentieth-century. turkey aimed to "liberate its language from the yoke of foreign languages", to be secular and modern, and to turn decisively from its eastern and islamic past. geoffrey ... read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780198238560ISBN:0198238568
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780198238560ISBN:0198238568
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780198238560ISBN:0198238568
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 234x156 mm. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (200) this is the first full account of the transformation of the turkish language in the years between 1930 and 1983-probably the most thorough-going piece of language engineering ever attempted. turkey aimed to "liberate its language from the yoke of foreign languages", and succeeded. by the early 1950s, ottoman turkish was dead. at the root of the reform was the young republic's aspirations to be ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780199256693ISBN:0199256691
Description: New. Designed to be accessible to the general reader as well as of interest to the scholar, this is an account of the transformation of Ottoman Turkish into modern Turkish, based on the author's knowledge and experience of the language, history, and people... read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780199256693ISBN:0199256691
Description: New. This is the first account of the transformation of the Turkish language in the years following 1930--probably the most extensive piece of language engineering ever attempted. The book is important both for the study of linguistic change and for the l... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780199256693ISBN:0199256691
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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