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Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile by billfruit on Thursday October 25, 2018 @09:36AM (#18300769)
Up till about 100 years ago, most of today's Arabic speaking areas were at least nominally under Turkish suzeranity, Turkey also was the centre of the Islamic world for so long, I wonder if the Turks did not try to replace Arabic with Turkish?
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Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile by eudora on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:37AM (#18301202)
I believe they were fairly light handed in that regard, and respected the cultural independence of their people. Grain of salt though, vague memory.
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