Athens Turkish Lessons

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Registration Form Athens Turkish Lessons (for beginners) will be provided voluntarily, once per week in the agreed day and time. Address: Omonoia 28is Oktovriou (Patision) 14, CIVIS plus, Athens, Greece Contact Details: (+30) 694 097 1551 and [email protected]

Karamanli Turkish is both a form of written Turkish and a dialect of Turkish spoken by the Karamanlides, a community of Turkish-speaking Orthodox Christians in Ottoman Turkey. Its vocabulary drew overwhelmingly from Turkic words with many Greek loan words. The language should not be confused with Cappadocian Greek, which was spoken in the same region during the same timeframe but is derived from the Greek language.

While the official Ottoman Turkish was written in the Arabic script, the Karamanlides used the Greek alphabet for writing its form of Turkish. Such texts are called Karamanlidika (Καραμανλήδικα / Καραμανλήδεια γραφή) or Karamanli Turkish today. Karamanli Turkish had its own literary tradition and produced numerous published works in print in the 19th century.