Turkish

التركية

Language of the Ottoman state; written in Arabic script for six centuries before the 1928 Latin reform, with a vast Sufi and devotional corpus.

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The language of the Ottoman state; written in Arabic script for six centuries before the switch to Latin in 1928, with a vast Sufi and hymn heritage. 1

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God teaches Adam the names

Sha'rawi holds that God taught Adam all the names by an inspiration cast into his heart, that language is not heredity or environment but imitation of what one hears, and that every knowledge ends at a first teacher, who is God.