Old Anatolian Turkish


Old Anatolian Turkish is the stage in the history of the Turkish language spoken in Anatolia from the 11th to 15th centuries. It developed into Early Ottoman Turkish. It was written in the Arabic script. Unlike in later Ottoman Turkish, short-vowel diacritics were used.
It had no official status until 1277, when Mehmet I of Karaman declared a firman in order to break the supremacy, dominance and popularity of Persian:

Examples

Following texts are taken from Turan Fikret's work: "Old Anatolian Turkish: Syntactic Structure" :

Alphabet

LetterModern TurkishLetterModern Turkish
a, e, is
bd
pt
tz
sa
cğ, g
çf
hk
hk
dl
d, zm
rn
zo, ö, u, ü, v
jh
sla, le
şi, y, ı