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Europe and the Turkish Language Reform: The Role of European Ideas and Preconceptions in the Quest to Showcase a Turkic Language on the World Stage
Ahearn, Scott (2023-04-03)This thesis examines the European influence on the Turkish Language Reform, a movement peaking in the 1930s in which the new Republic of Turkey set out to purge its language of the many Arabic and Persian expressions that ...