The letter Q was illegal in Turkey from 1928 until last month
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Re: The letter Q was illegal in Turkey from 1928 until last month
#2The first comment has a link to this article: http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two...
Wow.
Re: The letter Q was illegal in Turkey from 1928 until last month
#3The letter Q was never illegal in Turkey. It was just not allowed to be used in names of people/companies etc. due to the fact that it is not in Turkish alphabet.
It is like letters ç,ğ,ü being illegal in US.
Re: The letter Q was illegal in Turkey from 1928 until last month
#4Actually it was never illegal in Turkey. Q, W, X just not allowed to be used in people/company names because they're not in Turkish alphabet. I think this news mislead by AKP as usual.
Re: The letter Q was illegal in Turkey from 1928 until last month
#5The Polish minority in Lithuania doesn't have the right to use the Polish orthography and/or letters of the Polish alphabet when writing their names.
http://www.nouvelle-europe.eu/en/polish-national-minority-li...
Re: The letter Q was illegal in Turkey from 1928 until last month
#6The first comment has a link to this article: http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two... Wow.
Yup, accents can be pretty critical. In Finnish, näin means "I saw", but nain means "I had sex with". This put a bit of a twist on a friend trying to tell me "I saw the rapist in the park!" when the umlaut dropped off...
Re: The letter Q was illegal in Turkey from 1928 until last month
#7I think this is part of a general de-arabization trend which followed the crumbling of the Ottoman empire, as many words would naturally have been transliterated with a q (which would be ق in the Arabic script, which was used in Ottoman Turkish). I have heard that for many years it was illegal to name a son Muhammad in Turkey - you could only use the "Turkified" version Mehmed or Mehmet.
Re: The letter Q was illegal in Turkey from 1928 until last month
#8I think this is part of a general de-arabization trend which followed the crumbling of the Ottoman empire, as many words would naturally have been transliterated with a q (which would be ق in the Arabic script, which was used in Ottoman Turkish). I have heard that for many years it was illegal to name a son Muhammad in Turkey - you could only use the "Turkified" version Mehmed or Mehmet.
Nope, you can still name it as "Muhammet", which is the turkish version of "Muhammad".
Re: The letter Q was illegal in Turkey from 1928 until last month
#9This is common in many cultures. Until recently the letters K,W and Y were "ilegal" in Portugal. Meaning that could not be used in names or official documents.
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