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Middle Ottoman
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English
Alternative forms
en Middle Ottoman Turkish
Proper noun
Middle Ottoman
A register of the Ottoman Turkish language typical to the time from 1501–1800 and later a chosen register, particularly seen as exclusive to an educated elite, as marked by complex syntax (lacking punctuation) and largely Persianized and Arabicized vocabulary and sentence structure.
Synonyms
en Classical Ottoman Turkish
Coordinate terms
en Old Ottoman / en Old Anatolian Turkish, en New Ottoman
Translations
the Turkish language in the middle period of the Ottoman Empire, of many lexical and syntactic borrowings
Finnish: fi klassinen osmaninturkki
German: de Mittelosmanisch n, de klassisch Osmanisch-Türkisch n
Hindi: hi मध्य उस्मानी f
Swedish: sv medelosmanska c
Turkish: tr Klasik Osmanlıca, tr Klâsik Osmanlıca, tr Orta Osmanlıca
en Extinct languages