Talk:Turks/@comment-5121633-20151230045442/@comment-212.253.209.254-20160909114218

I don't agree.

It is true that Ottomans were using Arabic alphabet in order to put their language on paper, however they were speaking Turkish -it was not the modern Turkish of course- in the end. Turks and Persians are not speakers of Semitic languages, the two have totally different background. Does it necessarily indicate that we are speaking Latin even now, for the reason we're using Roman Alphabet?

Nevertheless you have some point, the language during the Imperial Period of Ottomans had various aspects. The tongue spoken by the court, bureaucrats and poets was different than the language of ordinary people. Upper class were also using words from different languages (Arabic, Persian and even French in the late Ottoman period) to add in their words sophistical taste, if you like.

Speaking of that some words still have Arabic origin: tamirci, emrin, hazır, seyis, madenci.