Introductory Ottoman Turkish I

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This course is open to both graduate and undergraduate students. This introductory course aims to develop learners’ Ottoman Turkish reading and understanding skills written in the Ottoman Turkish (Arabo-Persian) alphabet. Students will practice reading Ottoman Turkish starting with simple separate words, and they will gradually move to studying longer texts. Simultaneously, students will review the main grammatical features of Ottoman Turkish including simple Arabic and Persian grammatical elements in the texts. Students will also practice how to solve problems encountered in the texts with use of dictionaries. In this introductory course students will mainly study the printed Ottoman Turkish texts published after the Second Constitutional Era (1908), and then they will be introduced to the texts of the ‘New Ottoman Turkish’ era (1839-1908). Minimum B2 level of Turkish is required for this class. Please email me if you have any questions about your Turkish language level.