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Re: Conlanging and Natlangs

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 25, 2000, 21:26
"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. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)