The Turkish Language Reform : A Catastrophic Success

Geoffrey Lewis
Oxford University Press (UK)
 9780199256693
0-19-925669-1

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.

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for the study of linguistic change and for the light it throws on twentieth-century Turkish politics and society.