Re: non-Latin crossword puzzles and palindromes


Prai Jei wrote:
> Yusuf B Gursey (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in
message
> <1114635180.346519.106100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > incidentally, in late Ottoman Turkey there was an attempt to create
an
> > arabic based script based on disjointed letters. it was promoted by
> > none other than Enver Pasha, ("deputy") Chief of Staff and one of
the
> > "Triumvirs" efectively running the country. he promoted it first in
a
> > magazine, and thus it became known as the Enveriye script.
>
> Have there been any calls to restore the Arabic script for writing
Turkish?
> (Any reactionary/fundamentalist elements in the population who
already do
> this?)

no serious move that I know of. the current roman based script is
quite efficient and at least the traditional orthography had many
handicaps. conservatives had objected to reforming it, and reformers
had found reforming it too little.

there are some who would like to see it taught at high schools,
it was an idea floated around in the 1990's and supported by historians
and archivists who wanted to see more people proficient at reading
ottoman achives, and IMO their proposals were unneccesarily burdensome.
it is taught in universities for those studying literature and history.

you now see it appearing on the covers of religious or religious
oriented
works. some time ago these may have been confiscated bu tare now not
seen as a threat. In Greece, Ottoman script is used in muslim turkish
religious work.

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