Karamanli Turkish
Greek-written Turkish dialect of the Karamanlides / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Karamanli Turkish (Turkish: Karamanlı Türkçesi; Greek: Καραμανλήδικα, romanized: Karamanlídika) is an extinct dialect of the Turkish language spoken by the Karamanlides. Although the official Ottoman Turkish was written in the Arabic script, the Karamanlides used the Greek alphabet to write their form of Turkish. Karamanlı Turkish had its own literary tradition and produced numerous published works in print during the 19th century, some of them published by the British and Foreign Bible Society as well as by Evangelinos Misailidis in the Anatoli or Misailidis publishing house.[1][2]
Karamanlı Turkish | |
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Karamanlıca - Karamanlı Türkçesi | |
Native to | Greece, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Romania, Turkey |
Era | 19th century |
Greek | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | kara1469 |
Karamanlı writers and speakers were expelled from Turkey as part of the Greek-Turkish population exchange in 1923. Some speakers preserved their language in the diaspora. The written form stopped being used immediately after Turkey adopted the Latin alphabet.
A fragment of a manuscript written in Karamanlı was also found in the Cairo Geniza.[3]