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The Turkish Language Reform was a project undertaken by the Turkish government in the 1930s in an effort to modernize the Turkish language. The reform was a massive undertaking, and it was largely successful. The book discusses the reform in detail, and it is an important source of information on Turkish language change.
This is the first account of the transformation of the Turkish language in the years following 1930--probably the most extensive piece of language engineering ever attempted. The book is Important both for the study of linguistic change and for the light it throws on twentieth-century Turkish politics and society.
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