Middle Ottoman
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[edit]- A register of the Ottoman Turkish language typical to the time from 1501–1800 and later a chosen register, particularly seen as exclusive to an educated elite, as marked by complex syntax (lacking punctuation) and largely Persianized and Arabicized vocabulary and sentence structure.
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[edit]the Turkish language in the middle period of the Ottoman Empire, of many lexical and syntactic borrowings
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