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When Turkish Was Written in the Greek, Armenian and Assyrian Script

The Syriac-script, trilingual (Syriac-Arabic-Turkish) biweekly Leshono d'Umtho, or Tongue of the Nation. Beirut, 1928. (British Library) For those who have learnt foreign languages, the presence of a ...
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A rose by any other name: When Turkish was written in the Greek, Armenian and even Syrian script

For those who have learnt foreign languages, the presence of a loanword can be both comforting and surreal. In languages written in non-Roman scripts, a borrowed word – take computer as an example – ...
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Is the Turkish government rewriting the script for the country's film directors?

Turkish filmmakers have been on a roll recently. This month's Venice Film Festival recognized a Turkish director with a pair of Awards while a Turkish film won the top award at this year’s festival in ...
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Deciphering vanished scripts

For more than 3,000 years, hieroglyphs were used to write the language of ancient Egypt. Then the script disappeared from use. The latest known hieroglyphic inscription was carved by a priest into the ...