Turks in the Egyptian Administration and the Turkish Language as a Language of Administration
Turks in the Egyptian Administration and the Turkish Language as a Language of Administration
Muhammad Ali established Turkish as the language of government administration in Egypt. However, since Arabic remained the language of most Egyptians, a class of bilingual bureaucrats developed, and many texts and government documents were printed in bilingual editions. A number of Turkish loan words entered Egyptian Arabic; similarly, the Turkish spoken in Egypt absorbed words from Arabic. Later in the nineteenth century, Arabic, and to a lesser extent French and English, began to displace Turkish as the language of government.
Keywords: administration, Muhammad Ali, Turkish language, bilingualism, publishing
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