Why Don't Arabs Speak Turkish? 🇹🇷

The Ottomans ruled Egypt and the Levant from 1516–17 and Iraq from 1534, until 1918, but Arabic, the language of the Quran, never lost its prestige. Turkish borrowed far more from Arabic than the other way round.

Sources: Britannica "Ottoman Empire"; Britannica "Turkish language"; Geoffrey Lewis, The Turkish Language Reform (OUP 1999).

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