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Originally Posted by Quoth
I'm nearly sure Turkish used to use Arabic script and RTL, but now is Latin-Roman script and LTR.
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But not that long ago - first the alphabet from Arabic to a Latin-Roman - 1928. Then the language, e.g. purging the Arabic and Iranian loan words - that took several decades.
Interestingly, similar reforms to other Turkic languages occurred over the same time frame.
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