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TheGreatCatto t1_itc26up wrote

How different ottoman turkish was in 14th century to the one in the late 20th century, has there been any noticeable change to amout of influence both arabic and persian had into it or didn't remain the same till it's end ?

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toptipkekk t1_itcf2n4 wrote

In terms of daily spoken language used by the common folk: mutually intelligible with the modern Turkish.

Official documents are mostly unintelligible if you do not know all the loanwords from Persian and Arabic tho, even if you can read the alphabet.

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