3 ms·
I've been so happy to submit this! I read all the comments and learned a lot of stuff. Thanks to all commentators thus. A very similar situation can be observe
by gkya 13y ago
I've been so happy to submit this! I read all the comments and learned a lot of stuff. Thanks to all commentators thus.
A very similar situation can be observed in Turkish: Turks went to Europe and Middle East in 4th century, the ones that went to Europe eventually died, and the ones that went to Middle East and formed empires, including the rather long lived and glorious Ottoman Empire. While they were busy becoming more Muslim and more Arabic, learning fancy Arabic and Persian words, borrowing their alphabet and elevating this new Ottoman language to be the language of the palace, and the language of art, whereas the public spoke their own languages (lots of ethnicities were within the umbrella of Ottomans); Renaissance and The French Revolution happened, which eventually got Ottomans to love and behold Europe, mainly France, and borrow their words and lifestyle. In 19th century, Ottoman language was such a travesty, the first lessons of an under-graduate History course in Turkey now teaches the language, albeit Turkey directly descended from Ottomans not even a century ago. Together with the Kemalist revolution did start a movement of linguistic purism, along which the Turkish language was greatly stripped from what made it Ottoman, and the result was an easy-to-learn, simple and consistent language.
Still, though, it'd bear the same effect with “Uncleftish Beholding” to the average Turkishman, a text where only Turkic-rooted words were used, as still there are lots of words in the language that come from Arabic, French, English and Latin. Also, it'd be a bother for the average Turkishman to communicate with a Middle-Asian Turk of modern times, language of whom is closer to pre-Islam Turkic languages.
It is fun to play games with language, watch it grow and find out about how it came to be the language it is today.