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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I recently found out that when the Ottoman Empire collapsed and they became Turkiye, they removed all the Persian and Arabic words from the Turkish language.

Imagine if after Brexit the English removed all the German and French words from their language.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think English would break. It's like half German derived words and half French/Romance language words wrapped in a Germanic grammatical structure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Apparently turkish was the same way. They can no longer understand any songs or books or anything written from before 1919