Turkish is the Oghuz Turkic language of Turkey and Cyprus, and of Turkish-speaking communities across the Balkans and the wider Turkic-speaking world, descended from Ottoman Turkish. Among its religious uses is the Alevi-Bektasi nefes and deyis repertoire, sung to the saz rather than read from a fixed liturgical book.
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Origins
Language FamilyOghuz branch of the Turkic language family. 1 Place of OriginTurkish descends from the Oghuz Turkic dialects of Central Asia, carried into Anatolia by Turkic migrations and consolidated there under the Seljuk and later Ottoman states. 1Tradition: An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples Identity
Native ScriptThe Latin-based Turkish alphabet, adopted in 1928 under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's language reform, replacing the Arabic-based Ottoman Turkish script. 1 Geography
Modern AreaThe national language of Turkey and one of the official languages of Cyprus, with substantial minority speaker communities in Germany and elsewhere in Western Europe. 3 Practice
Liturgical and Scriptural RoleThe language of the Alevi-Bektasi nefes and deyis hymn repertoire, sung to the saz in cem ceremonies rather than recited from a fixed liturgical text. 2 Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Cyprus directly: "Oghuz Turkic language of Turkey and Cyprus, and of Turkish-speaking communities across the Balkans and the wider Turkic-speaking world, descended from Ottoman Turkish."
This source names Turkish directly: "legal recognition under Turkish law."
This source names Turkish directly: "to 89 percent in 1924 after the Greek-Turkish population exchange under the Treaty of Lausanne, and 81 to 90 percent per a 2022 United States Department of State international religious freedom..."
This source names Turkish directly: "parliamentary resolutions, while the Turkish government rejects the characterization."
This source names Turkish directly: "for Turkey in the 1923-24 Greek-Turkish population exchange, and that no more than a hundred remained in Salonica by 1924."
This source names Turkish directly: "the false pretext (a bombing at the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki), the organized mobilization of rioters by the ruling Demokrat Parti and government-aligned trade unions, and the destruction..."
This source names Turkey directly: "Turkish is the Oghuz Turkic language of Turkey and Cyprus, and of Turkish-speaking communities across the Balkans and the wider Turkic-speaking world, descended from Ottoman Turkish."
This source names Turkish directly: "A scholarly history of Turkish Jewry under the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic through the Second World War, covering the 1934 Thrace pogrom's background in the Resettlement Law and..."
This source names Turkish directly: "led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and from Turkish backed militias."
This source names Turkish directly: "law, examining four articles of the Turkish Penal Code used to restrict expression, including Article 216's religious-insult provision, quoting the statutory text and assessing it against European..."
Named or Composed in This Language
Its own text: "The repertory is in Turkish rather than Arabic."
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