ATATURK, Mustafa Kemal (1881-1938). Autograph notes illustrating the spelling of words according to Turkish pronunciation in the 'New Turkish' (i.e. Latin) script, n.p. [Ankara], n.d. [1927], and (on the left of the page) four words in the hand of Dr Eugène Pittard, in pencil, on squared paper, one page, folio . Provenance : The papers of Dr Eugène Pittard (1867-1962), the distinguished Swiss anthropologist.
ATATURK, Mustafa Kemal (1881-1938). Autograph notes illustrating the spelling of words according to Turkish pronunciation in the 'New Turkish' (i.e. Latin) script, n.p. [Ankara], n.d. [1927], and (on the left of the page) four words in the hand of Dr Eugène Pittard, in pencil, on squared paper, one page, folio . Provenance : The papers of Dr Eugène Pittard (1867-1962), the distinguished Swiss anthropologist. Eugène Pittard was the author of several works on Turkey and in 1927 he and his wife visited Ankara and were entertained by Ataturk. A discussion of the modernisation of the new Republic and the obstacles caused by the writing of the Turkish language in Arabic characters led to Ataturk giving the present examples of different solutions to the spelling of various words suggested by Pittard, (including 'biologie', 'archéologie', 'Hittite', 'Israël', and 'Yahudi/Yakutig') according to the rules of Turkish pronunciation. Pittard was so impressed by the alphabet reform that he devoted an entire chapter to it in Le visage nouveau de la Turquie (1931) and called it one of the greatest social revolutions in history. The 'new Turkish alphabet', a modified form of the Latin alphabet comprising 29 letters, was introduced at the beginning of 1928 and adopted by law at the end of the year. It was one of Ataturk's most inspired reforms. In the last years of the Ottoman era as many as 80 of the population of Turkey were illiterate. The Turkish language, for which the Arabic script was often ill-suited, was further complicated by the usage by the educated class of numerous words and phrases of Arabic or Persian origin, which began now to be replaced by existing Turkish words or neologisms. The new Republic was declared a secular state in April 1928.
ATATURK, Mustafa Kemal (1881-1938). Autograph notes illustrating the spelling of words according to Turkish pronunciation in the 'New Turkish' (i.e. Latin) script, n.p. [Ankara], n.d. [1927], and (on the left of the page) four words in the hand of Dr Eugène Pittard, in pencil, on squared paper, one page, folio . Provenance : The papers of Dr Eugène Pittard (1867-1962), the distinguished Swiss anthropologist.
ATATURK, Mustafa Kemal (1881-1938). Autograph notes illustrating the spelling of words according to Turkish pronunciation in the 'New Turkish' (i.e. Latin) script, n.p. [Ankara], n.d. [1927], and (on the left of the page) four words in the hand of Dr Eugène Pittard, in pencil, on squared paper, one page, folio . Provenance : The papers of Dr Eugène Pittard (1867-1962), the distinguished Swiss anthropologist. Eugène Pittard was the author of several works on Turkey and in 1927 he and his wife visited Ankara and were entertained by Ataturk. A discussion of the modernisation of the new Republic and the obstacles caused by the writing of the Turkish language in Arabic characters led to Ataturk giving the present examples of different solutions to the spelling of various words suggested by Pittard, (including 'biologie', 'archéologie', 'Hittite', 'Israël', and 'Yahudi/Yakutig') according to the rules of Turkish pronunciation. Pittard was so impressed by the alphabet reform that he devoted an entire chapter to it in Le visage nouveau de la Turquie (1931) and called it one of the greatest social revolutions in history. The 'new Turkish alphabet', a modified form of the Latin alphabet comprising 29 letters, was introduced at the beginning of 1928 and adopted by law at the end of the year. It was one of Ataturk's most inspired reforms. In the last years of the Ottoman era as many as 80 of the population of Turkey were illiterate. The Turkish language, for which the Arabic script was often ill-suited, was further complicated by the usage by the educated class of numerous words and phrases of Arabic or Persian origin, which began now to be replaced by existing Turkish words or neologisms. The new Republic was declared a secular state in April 1928.
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