Κυριακή, 29 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
Tech
department of a Turkish company in Isparta has introduced a keyboard
with Ottoman letters as a result of its R&D efforts
World Bulletin/News Desk
The
technological department of a Turkish company that produces holy Quran
in Turkey’s Isparta city has introduced a keyboard with Ottoman and
Latin letters to enable writing in Ottoman, as a result of its research
and development (R&D) efforts.
Speaking
to Anadolu Agency in an exclusive, owner of the company Ali Yildiz
remarked the “Ottoman alphabet” was developed in the past to integrate
Turkish language with Islam.
Stating
that the Ottoman language was used by Turks for ages, Yildiz stressed
that Ottoman was not much different from the Turkish languge used today,
except from the change of the alphabet from Quran letters to Latin
ones.
“Despite
Turkey’s rich archives in Ottoman, most of the Turkish people today are
unable to read them. There is no other nation in the world that cannot
read one piece from the works of their ancestors in a library,” he said.
Highlighting
the rising demand for learning Ottoman as the Turkish nation has
recently become aware of the rich archives, Yildiz noted that they
published the first ever Ottoman journal in Turkey after 85 years, which
was welcomed with great attention by the Turkish community.
He
also mentioned they developed an online a software for those who wished
to write in Ottoman, and said it was downloaded by more than 50
thousand people so far.
Considering
the impossibility of writing in Ottoman with Latin-letter keyboard,
Yildiz said they decided to develop an Ottoman keyboard when they, after
researches, found out that there was a draft by Turkish Standards
Institution (TSE) dated 2006 on how an Ottoman keyboard should be.
“Noone
did anything to fulfill the need, so our high-tech department within
the company developed a keyboard with Ottoman letters on it to fill the
gap in the market. The keyboard has both Latin and Ottoman letters on
it. We have prepared a user-friendly keyboard in both Q and F formats
along with an installation CD,” he added.
Yildiz argued that the keyboard in Ottoman was a first in the world, adding that it was sold online.
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