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The reason the Ottoman language existed is that the Turkish language lacked, or was imagined to lack, a lot of words. Turkish is fine for steppe stuff, like horse and sky and summer and winter, and next-to-steppe stuff like water and snow and mountain and avalanche – all ancient-sounding monosyllables. But Turkish seemed short on […]

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