Old Anatolian Turkish

Old Anatolian Turkish
Old Anatolian Turkic
تُركجَ
Native toAnatolia
EraEmerged in Anatolia late 11th century. Developed into Early Ottoman Turkish and Ajem-Turkic c.15th century
Turkic
Ottoman Turkish alphabet augmented with ḥarakāt
Language codes
ISO 639-3
1ca Old Anatolian Turkish
GlottologNone

Old Anatolian Turkish or Old Turkish, also referred to as Old Anatolian Turkic, (Turkish: Eski Anadolu Türkçesi, Perso-Arabic script: اسکی انادولو تورکچه‌سی), was the form of the Turkish language spoken in Anatolia from the 11th to 15th centuries. It developed into Early Ottoman Turkish. It was written in the Perso-Arabic script. Unlike in later Ottoman Turkish, short-vowel diacritics were used.

It had no official status until 1277, when Mehmet I of Karaman declared a firman in an attempt to break the dominance of Persian: