Turkish ISN'T spoken in Turkey. (here's why)

Ottoman Turks did not speak "Ottoman Turkish", that is only limited to literature of the palace

In modern day Turkish "Anadolu" defines the whole land inside the borders of Türkiye, minus Trakya (Thrace)

This a very good video but the title is pretty awful, I recommend changing it.

the title is misleading

You got the history of the modern Turkish language totally wrong. Crazy was the Ottoman Turkish, not what the "journalists had to invent". Here's why: 11:25 1. Ottoman Turkish was the language of the royal court mostly unintelligible to regular folks cuz it had too many Arabic and Farsi loan words and even grammar was heavily influenced by Arabic and Farsi. Ottoman Turkish was a construct language rather than natural. 2. Millions of people were not literate. Nobody had to convince them to switch from one script to another. They learnt reading and writing from scratch, from zero. They did not have to abandon anything cuz they didn't have it. They couldn't speak Ottoman Turkish, let alone read or write. 3. New vocabulary to replace Arabo-Persian loan words was made of transparent Turkic roots that were already in use with regular folks. Unintelligible müselles became a clear cut üçgen from üç – three and gen – corner, angle (in shapes), beşgen – five-corner (pentagon), altıgen – six-corner (hexa-gon). Arabic matbaa became baskı (press, from basmak – step on, press). Arabic tayyare was replaced with uçak – fly-thing (airplane from uçmak – to fly), seyyare became araba (car, araba used to mean cart), istiklal became bağımsızlık (lit. connectionlessness, independence) etc etc etc. The meaning of 99% of Turkish non-loan words is easily derived from their morphemes. You don't need too much effort to learn them. For comparison. Ottoman: Müsellesin sathı yatalay, dikeley zarbının müsavatına müsavidir. Arabo-Persian gibberish. Not a single school boy or girl can understand without first learning Arabic and Persian words and grammar. Modern Türkish: Üçgenin alanı, tabanı ile yüksekliğinin çarpımının yarısına eşittir. The latter is clear without effort cuz every single word is turkish made of Turkic roots and morphenes that had been in use for centurues before the cancellation of the Ottoman Tirkish. The reform cancelled the use of the Ottoman Turkish and replaced it with the natural Istanbul dialect of the Tirkish language and used it potential to derive new words with meanings clear from the time you see or hear them. It's like as if English replaced all its Latin and French words with Germanic ones: triangle – threecorner, manager – handler, royal – kingly, senior – older etc etc.

the purification process did not take place by jouranalist ''making up'' words, words, terms that already existed in Anatolian villages, rural areas, or from old books and some from Central Asian Turks that is still spoken, were adopted

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Bros not showing a full pick of turkey

Thank you for not being politically blind while describing Anatolian languages. As additional, I can just say that, like in any other place in the earth, there are much more lost languages in that geography, even neanderthals, which was another human specie, used to speak a language or maybe multiple languages! Those guys were the ones who are documented. Plus, there are some other languages which were documented even Celtic, Kashka, Cimmerian, Semitic, Scythian etc. languages.

Heyyy which Anatolia map do yo show? You show only the half of the Anatolia

south eastern Anatolia is missing in your map and eastern Thrace.

Actually, nobody knows what was spoken. Only written languages were the language of the rulers, which did not necessarily had the same linguistic and ethnic background as the common folks, which were mostly slaves. Rulers were usually invited/selected by the few priviledged. Hittites apparently were the source of rulers for much of the area.

Title needs to be changed as it is quite misleading

Reported for using an incorrect map of Turkey.

We don't know the language of first Neolithic farmers from 10k years ago, but it definitely wasn't Hattian. Hattian is a name of language from around 2000-1000BC. There's six thousands years of difference. Even if no migrations had happened in-between, which is highly unlikely, Hattians couldn't possibly speak the same language for so long.

First, the Hattic language related to the North West (not North East) is debated anyway. Furthermore, there is an Hattic word (not in the video) very persistent. tauwa 'fear, shock', passed through Greek θαῦμα, θῶμα, θῶυμα 'wonder, astonishment', hence Latin and English (thaumaturgic).

Very misleading title and thats very wrong!

Your Anatolian map is wrong not only politically, but also legally and scientifically. It is an insultive map. You are going to be complained if you do not correct the map.

The title is completely wrong!!! Tell the audience for 10 minutes the language history of a region to say the opposite of the title! Change the title! Ottoman turkish was only a written language! Even the people at the palace didn't speak like that although their language had more of those "ottoman" words than the language of the peasants. There is a wrong statement in the video, too. "How made he 13 mio people forget how they speak and write?" You yourself say that the language reform was executed to increase literacy rates. At that time the literacy rate was below 5%, so - if 13 mio is the accurate number - that means around 500000 and the most of them new foreign languages including french (the world language that time) and some other european languages. So they were highly educated people and therefore they knew that the arabic alphabet is not fitting to the turkish language. One strategy to find new "native" words was also to ask the people how they call certain things in their local dialect via newspaper. An other strategy was to check older ottoman texts to find out how it was called before the loanwords entered. So it was not changing the way how people spoke but making the written language more fitting to the spoken language.

"[Anatolian] Hittite split from the Indo-European language family much earlier than most other branches." ?? Anything that we categorize as a distinct language has, by definition, differentiated itself, right? How is becoming a distinct language different than 'splitting' off? Do you just mean that these languages came earlier than other groupings of languages that we now categorize as branches?