Sep
I know than the current Turkish alphabet was used since the last century, when the Ottoman Empire fell, and the Republic of Turkey was made
and before of it, turkish used the arabic alphabet, when they were Converted to Islam
but, how was the first (original) turkish alphabet…? (the alphabet used originally in Mongolia, in the times of ATILA)
only by curiosity
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The oldest one known:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkhon_scri…
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It was the Orkhon script.
The Old Turkic script (also Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script; Turkish: Orhun Yazıtları, 鄂爾渾文字) is the alphabet used by the Göktürk from the 8th century to record the Old Turkic language. It was later used by the Uyghur Empire; a Yenisei variant is known from 9th-century Kyrgyz inscriptions, and it has likely cousins in the Talas Valley of Turkestan and the Old Hungarian script of the 10th century. The alphabet was usually written from right to left.
The script is named after the Orkhon Valley in Mongolia, where 8th century inscriptions were discovered in an 1889 expedition by Nikolay Yadrintsev. These Orkhon inscriptions were published by Vasily Radlov and deciphered by the Danish philologist Vilhelm Thomsen in 1893.
The script is very similar to that on monuments left by Tu-jue (突厥 pinyin tú jué) in China during the Tang Dynasty.[citation needed] Because of similarities to the angular shapes of the runic alphabet, the letters of the Orkhon script have been referred to as “Turkic runes” or described as “runiform”. This similarity is superficial, however, since all alphabetic scripts used for incision in hard surfaces show this tendency (see Old Italic alphabets for other examples).
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wow thats astounding .they do look like runic inscriptions very intresting…..ADDED: i just noticed the formation is like the way chinnese write..and read.from north to south…as opposed to west to east formation…..is that right? or am i imagining it? if thats true..it means that either chineese copied the GORTURKS or the other way around..?
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This is from 8th century AD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkhon_scri…
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They’re called runes and look like the runes of ancient Fins, but not the same.