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The literary and official language during the Ottoman Empire period (c. 1299 –1922) is termed Ottoman Turkish, which was a mixture of Turkish, Persian, and Arabic that differed considerably from today's modern Turkish and was largely unintelligible to the period's everyday Turkish.
Turkish language, the major member of the Turkic language family, spoken in Turkey, Cyprus, and elsewhere in Europe and the Middle East. It is the descendant of Ottoman Turkish and underwent significant reform with the founding of the Turkish republic in 1923.
Until 1928 Turkish was written with a version of the Perso-Arabic script known as the Ottoman Turkish script. There was also a way to write Ottoman Turkish with the Armenian alphabet, known as Armeno-Turkish, that was used by ethnic Armenians and the non-Armenian Ottoman Turkish elite until 1928.
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