"...Historians estimate that 1.5 million Armenians were killed in a campaign of forced marches and mass killings born out of Ottoman concerns that the Christian Armenian population would align with Russia during World War I, abetting an arch-nemesis of the Ottoman Turks.
Turkey has acknowledged that many Armenians were killed in fighting with Ottoman forces in 1915 but disputes the larger casualty counts, denies that the events constituted genocide and considers such claims a slander against its founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, immediately criticized Biden’s remarks.
“We entirely reject this statement,” he wrote on Twitter. “We have nothing to learn from anybody on our own past. Political opportunism is the greatest betrayal to peace and justice.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/armenia-genocide-biden-turkey/2021/04/24/b0f2394a-a46a-11eb-8a6d-f1b55f463112_story.html
For example, how were the letters written? Did they have special names for letters such as ح the way Persian does? How were the letter names spelled? For example, was 'kef' spelled as کف or کاف when its letter name was written out. What about 'zel' was that ذال or ذل?
I am also greatly curious to know about some of the more uniform letters like 'be' and 'pe' (which in Persian take their letter names as بِ and پِ respectively, however in the Ottoman Alphabet they would either have to be written as بَ and پَ or as به and په). There is another case of letters such as 'hı' and 'tı'. I am curious to know were they written as خِ and طِ like in Persian, or were they written out as خی and طی).
If anybody knows where I could find a historical pre-1920/1930 school textbook for kids that would be great.
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> Kazakhstan's shift from the Russia-enforced Cyrillic alphabet is based on Turkish linguists' proposed principle of "One sound-one letter," which has nine vowels and 31 basic letters in total.
> Turkish linguists have proposed "One sound one letter" and on January 28, 2021, the new alphabet was introduced in Kazakhstan.
> Kazakhstan's new alphabet, prepared according to the principle of "One sound-one letter", has 9 vowels and 31 basic letters in total.
> Mugla Sitki Kocman University faculty member Professor Ali Akar said that the alphabet unity in the Turkic world is a strategic move.
> "Kazakhstan's transition from Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet should not be considered only as a letter change. This transition is one of the first steps in the economic, cultural, and political integration of the Turkic world," Akar said.
> He further said, "Scientists and students working in this field certainly know the Cyrillic alphabet. The target is the person on the street. How many people know the Cyrillic alphabet of 83 million in Turkey? He engaged in trade geography, there are people who are educated labor unions, saying,"Turkey and Kazakhstan 's people doing trade, stressed the need for mutual understanding of the alphabet.
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What if Turkish used Greek to write its language instead of Latin?
Feel free to repurpose some letters like Psi (Ψ) or Ksi (Ξ) since Turkish repurposed the letter C for /d͡ʒ/ for example.
PS: Yes I know about Karamanli Turkish... don’t just comment that it exists, because I know it does. The purpose is your OWN unique take on this challenge.
By this I don't mean Azeris or Turkmen or the other speakers of Turkic languages in the Soviet Union (which of course has its own complicated history of script reforms), but former Ottoman territories which, for some reason or another, weren't involved in the population exchanges of the early 20th century. Places like the Aegean Islands (controlled by Italy) or Cyprus—did the Turkish populations of such areas continue to write in Arabic script long after those in Turkey had switched to the Latin alphabet? (Similar question about the small Ottoman-Turkish diaspora in the US, etc.) And if so, how long did it take for reforms in Turkey to permeate these areas where Atatürk couldn't enforce any such changes?
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Hello, I use Gboard as my keyboard on my Oneplus phone with the Turkey (QWERTY) keyboard selected.
As a Latin based alphabet, Turkish has several non English letters like "ı", "ç" or "ğ". I can access these letters by long pressing the latin letter most similar to it, such as long pressing the letter "c" for "ç".
However, when I long press "c", for example, I get the letter that I want (ç) but also letters from other languages that also use the Latin alphabet like "č" or "ć". Another example would be the letter "ş", which can be typed by long pressing "s"; this also causes letters like "ß", "ś", "š" to appear. Its tedious to readjust your text if you type the letter you don't want. I don't use autocorrect.
My question is if there is a way to remove the non-Turkish letters from Gboard, while retaining the Turkish ones and the QWERTY format of letters on the keyboard? Does Gboard have this functionality? If not, does any keyboard app have it? Is it possible for this to be added in an update?
Edit: TL,DR: I want to change which non-English letters appear when I long press a letter on Gboard. I am asking if this is possible.
Hello,
I am interested to learn about how the implementation of the modern Turkish alphabet affected the lives of every day citizens. Was there significant opposition from those who were already literate in the Arabic script? How long did it take before a majority were able to understand the new alphabet? Did some continue to definently use the old script decades later??
I look forward to your answers and thank you in advance.
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If you ask me, that's pointless.
The whole section regarding this language is a little cryptic (and I haven't read much further), but from what I could gather, Russian Intelligence has tasked this character (Tchitcherine) with developing a new alphabet to spread throughout Asia (particularly Kyrgyzstan)?
Is this a reference to anything that actually happened? And if the goal of this was to spread Russian influence (my guess), why is it in English letters instead of cyrillic?
