Re: Conlanging and Natlangs
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 25, 2000, 21:26 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> Right. But most of Atatürk's linguistic reforms were
> aimed at the implementation of the Roman alphabet, instead
> of the traditional Arabic alphabet.
There was also a movement for "purer Turkish", which meant in practice
the replacement of technical Arabic and Persian loans with morphologically
transparent compounds, mostly using native morphemes.
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