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October 6th, 2008 | #42 |
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I´ll assume that Greek was the language of science and literature so the Turk kept it around.
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But it was the peasants who kept demotic alive. Katharevousa was developed in the 19th century. The cultured languages of Turkey were Arabic, Persian, and a hybrid of the two combined with some Turkish called Ottoman.
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