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Armeno-Turkish alphabet
Front page of theOld Testament written in Armeno-Turkish alphabet
Script type	Alphabet
Creator	Mesrop Mashtots
Languages	Ottoman Turkish language
Related scripts
Parent systems	Armenian script Armeno-Turkish alphabet
Sister systems	Latin Coptic Georgian Cyrillic
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TheArmeno-Turkish alphabet is a version of theArmenian script sometimes used to writeOttoman Turkish until 1928, when the Latin-based modernTurkish alphabet was introduced. The Armenian script was not just used by ethnicArmenians to write the Turkish language, but also by the non-Armenian Ottoman Turkish elite.^{[citation needed]}

An American correspondent inMarash in 1864 called the alphabet "Armeno-Turkish", describing it as consisting of 31 Armenian letters and "infinitely superior" to theArabic orGreek alphabets for rendering Turkish.^[1]

This Armenian script was used alongside the Arabic script for official documents of theOttoman Empire written inOttoman Turkish.^{[citation needed]} For instance, the firstnovel to be written in Turkish in the Ottoman Empire wasVartan Pasha's 1851Akabi Hikâyesi, written in the Armenian script.^{[citation needed]} In the early 19th century, AmericanEvangelical missionaries began printing vernacular Turkish translations of the Bible written in the Armenian alphabet.^[2]

Although the Armenian alphabet fits the Turkish phonology very well, a few digraphs are needed to write all Turkish sounds, especially vowels. Some of them are also present in Armenian orthography.

• Karamanli Turkish
• Ottoman Turkish alphabet

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• Der Matossian, Bedross (20 January 2020). "The Development of Armeno-Turkish (Hayatar T'rk'erēn) in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire: Marking and Crossing Ethnoreligious Boundaries".Intellectual History of the Islamicate World.8 (1):67–100.doi:10.1163/2212943X-00702011.ISSN 2212-9421.
• Ghoogasian, Aram (2 January 2022). "The Problem with Hybridity: A Critique of Armeno-Turkish Studies".Middle Eastern Literatures.25 (1):39–56.doi:10.1080/1475262X.2023.2181572.ISSN 1475-262X. Discusses and cites many works on Armeno-Turkish literature.

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