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 "id": "language/turkish",
 "class": "language",
 "slug": "turkish",
 "label": {
  "ar": "التركية",
  "en": "Turkish"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "لغة الدولة العثمانية؛ كُتبت بالعربية ستة قرون قبل التحول للاتينية سنة 1928م، وبها تراث صوفي وإنشادي ضخم.",
  "en": "Language of the Ottoman state; written in Arabic script for six centuries before the 1928 Latin reform, with a vast Sufi and devotional corpus."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "words"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "linguistics"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "language",
  "scripts": [
   "latin (Ottoman: arabic)"
  ],
  "speakers_estimate": 80000000,
  "iso639": "tr",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q256"
  },
  "sources": [
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  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Wikidata + standard references",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), culture/language lane"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), 2026-10-16; speaker figures are rounded estimates"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "لغة الدولة العثمانية؛ كُتبت بالعربية ستة قرون قبل التحول للاتينية سنة 1928م، وبها تراث صوفي وإنشادي ضخم. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "language/turkish",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The language of the Ottoman state; written in Arabic script for six centuries before the switch to Latin in 1928, with a vast Sufi and hymn heritage. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "language/turkish",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "عثمانی سلطنت کی زبان؛ یہ چھ صدیوں تک عربی رسم الخط میں لکھی گئی، پھر سنہ 1928 عیسوی میں لاطینی رسم الخط کی طرف منتقل ہوئی، اور اس میں صوفی اور نعتیہ ورثہ بہت وسیع ہے۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "language/turkish",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/tacallum-al-asma",
  "language/amharic",
  "language/arabic",
  "language/bengali",
  "language/bosnian",
  "language/hausa",
  "language/indonesian",
  "language/kurdish"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}