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harika · 10-18-2006, 12:13 AM

Hi zippy

I don't know any latin, but I do know a piece of history: soon after the Turkish Republic was declared, the Turkish Alphabet was changed from Ottoman script to a Latin based script. Ottoman script was based on the Arabic alphabetic script but it did not cover the phoenetics of Turkish adequately, so Kemal Atatürk intoduced the new latin alphabet. So if the similarities you see are linked to the alphabet, that might help explain it.

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harika Growing Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 27 harika is an unknown character at this point	Hi zippy I don't know any latin, but I do know a piece of history: soon after the Turkish Republic was declared, the Turkish Alphabet was changed from Ottoman script to a Latin based script. Ottoman script was based on the Arabic alphabetic script but it did not cover the phoenetics of Turkish adequately, so Kemal Atatürk intoduced the new latin alphabet. So if the similarities you see are linked to the alphabet, that might help explain it.
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