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MaleficentDistrict22 t1_j43ahg9 wrote

Reply to comment by BugsCheeseStarWars in What was the State of Arabic Language Literature in the Ottoman Empire? by McGillis_is_a_Char

It’s because these people were nomads prior to that. They simply didn’t have written literature or architecture prior to getting settled. And creating a unique literature architecture takes centuries of work. Writing was invented in the Middle East in 3400 BC, the first time Turkish writings appeared was in 700s, almost 5000 years later.

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[deleted] t1_j43gs6e wrote

Writing has nothing to do with cultural literacy. The Adyghe/Circassian Nart sagas are as old, if not older, than the Greek mythological origin stories of the Caucasus region they share. They were not recorded in a written Kabardian language system (non Indo-European) until the 19th century.

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MaleficentDistrict22 t1_j43hzgk wrote

Turks also had sagas and myths. But neither those or the Caucasian ones you mentioned were comparable to the ancient Persian or Greek cultures.

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[deleted] t1_j4av211 wrote

Thanks for proving you know nothing of the Caucasus or ancient literature.

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kadeve t1_j45feb1 wrote

Dude stop being so racist. Your whole reddit personality ia about Turkish hate. Early Turkish texts are literally one of the first writings in the world. Stop spreading baseless claims that only sourced from your buttcheeks.

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MaleficentDistrict22 t1_j46z6f8 wrote

Not sure what the Turkish textbooks say these days but the first Turkish script is from 7th century, and as I said above it’s about 5000 years too late. For perspective Greek alphabet appeared around 1000 BC, Chinese around 1200 BC, Latin 500 BC and Arabic 100 BC. Compared to those Turkish script is very recent.

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