Western Turkish: Difference between revisions
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{{Infobox language|name=Western Turkish|boxsize=250px|states=[[Ottoman Empire]] <br> [[Rumelia]] <br> [[Russia]] <br> [[Persia]]|fam1=Turkic|fam2=Ohus}}
'''Western Turkish''' (''Bati Türktšesi'', بَتۡ
== History ==
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The early 20th century brought with it a renewed interest in the reformation of Western Turkish. In 1924, the [https://rosestulipsandliberty.com/lang/turkish.html Žamakowić romanization system] devised by a team of [[Austria|Austrian]] and Ottoman linguists gained official status in the Ottoman Empire. From 1939–1945, the creation of an [[Rumelia|independent Rumelian state]] saw the adoption of Cyrillic as an official script alongside Latin; all forms of Perso-Arabic were heavily censored.
Deeply concerned for the position of Perso-Arabic script in Ottoman society, [[Osman IV]] established an orthographic commission in 1957 seeking to reform the script. The Selimiya script (''Skrittura Selimije'', سكرِتُّرَ
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!Letter name
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|''üj''
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|'''ü / ue'''
|ұ
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|''ej''
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|'''e'''
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