What would it take for Turkish to supplant Arabic in major countries of the Middle East for all except religious uses?
What would it take for Turkish to supplant Arabic in major countries of the Middle East for all except religious uses?
This just makes me mad at all the diversity we lost...Anatolia was home to many different peoples in ancient times who were either natives or settlers and invaders. These different people included the Armenians, Hittites, Persians, Luwians, Hurrians, Greeks, Cimmerians, Galatians, Colchians, Iberians, Carians, Lydians, Lycians, Phrygians, Arameans, Assyrians, Corduenes, Cappadocians, Cilicians, Jews, Truvans and scores of others.
It was due to this, that the Turks could easily supplant them .
So many different cultures .
Egypt and Syria on the other hand, only large scale famine and something equivalent to the black death may do the job !