Editing Loanword (section)

===Transmission in the Ottoman Empire===
[[File:Backgammon and Dominos numbers in Ottoman Turkish, 1907.jpg|thumb|Backgammon and Dominos numbers in Ottoman Turkish, 1907 (see [[Tables game#Languages]])]]
During more than 600 years of the [[Ottoman Empire]], the literary and administrative language of the empire was [[Turkish language|Turkish]], with many [[Persian (language)|Persian]] and [[Arabic]] loanwords, called [[Ottoman Turkish]], considerably differing from the everyday spoken Turkish of the time. Many such words were adopted by other languages of the empire, such as [[Albanian language|Albanian]], [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]], [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], [[Croatian language|Croatian]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Ladino language|Ladino]], [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]], [[Montenegrin language|Montenegrin]] and [[Serbian language|Serbian]]. After the empire fell after [[World War I]] and the [[Republic of Turkey]] was founded, the Turkish language underwent an extensive [[language reform]] led by the newly founded [[Turkish Language Association]], during which [[List of replaced loanwords in Turkish|many adopted words]] were replaced with new formations derived from [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] roots. That was part of the ongoing cultural reform of the time, in turn a part in the broader framework of [[Atatürk's Reforms]], which also included the introduction of the new [[Turkish alphabet]].

Turkish also has taken many words from [[French (language)|French]], such as ''pantolon'' for ''trousers'' (from French ''pantalon'') and ''komik'' for ''funny'' (from French ''comique''), most of them pronounced very similarly.

Word usage in modern Turkey has acquired a political tinge: [[right-wing]] publications tend to use more Arabic-originated words, [[left-wing]] publications use more words adopted from Indo-European languages such as Persian and French, while centrist publications use more native Turkish root words.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lewis|first=Geoffrey|title=The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success|place=London|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2002|isbn=978-0-19-925669-3}}</ref>