Old Anatolian Turkish

Old Anatolian Turkish
Old Anatolian Turkish
تُركجَ
Native to	Anatolia
Era	Emerged in Anatolia late 11th century. Developed into Early Ottoman Turkish and Ajem-Turkic c. 15th century
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Oghuz Old Anatolian Turkish; ; ;
Writing system	Ottoman Turkish alphabet augmented with ḥarakāt
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	1ca Old Anatolian Turkish
Glottolog	None

Old Anatolian Turkish (Turkish: Eski Anadolu Türkçesi) is the stage in the history of the Turkish language spoken in Anatolia from the 11th to 15th centuries. It developed into Early Ottoman Turkish. It was written in the Arabic script. Unlike in later Ottoman Turkish, short-vowel diacritics were used.

It had no official status until 1277, when Mehmet I of Karaman declared a firman in an attempt to break the dominance of Persian:

Şimden girü hiç kimesne kapuda ve divanda ve mecalis ve seyranda Türki dilinden gayri dil söylemeye.

From now on nobody in the palace, in the divan, council, and at the hearings should speak any language other than Turkish.

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