toptipkekk t1_itcf2n4 wrote on October 22, 2022 at 4:00 PM Reply to comment by TheGreatCatto in World’s oldest Ottoman documents offer window into the past by bhdz 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. Permalink Parent 5
toptipkekk t1_itcf2n4 wrote
Reply to comment by TheGreatCatto in World’s oldest Ottoman documents offer window into the past by bhdz
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.