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Historically arabs assimilated many different ethnic groups, especially if they converted to islam. The people of anatolia seem to have been at least religiously and linguistically assimilated multiple times throughout history, most recently by the turks. The ottoman empire at times had a large part of its population arab, used the arab alphabet, used an enormous number of arabic loanwords, and had a state religion which gave arabic a great deal of prestige.

With a POD after 1453, by 1900; could the plurality of Anatolia speak arabic as their first tongue, and arabic be used as the official state language of the supreme porte?
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