Turkish ISN'T spoken in Turkey. (here's why) 

Ottoman Turks did not speak "Ottoman Turkish", that is only limited to literature of the palace

In modern day Turkish "Anadolu" defines the whole land inside the borders of Türkiye, minus Trakya (Thrace)

This a very good video but the title is pretty awful, I recommend changing it.

You got the history of the modern Turkish language totally wrong. Crazy was the Ottoman Turkish, not what the "journalists had to invent". Here's why: 11:25 1. Ottoman Turkish was the language of the royal court mostly unintelligible to regular folks cuz it had too many Arabic and Farsi loan words and even grammar was heavily influenced by Arabic and Farsi. Ottoman Turkish was a construct language rather than natural. 2. Millions of people were not literate. Nobody had to convince them to switch from one script to another. They learnt reading and writing from scratch, from zero. They did not have to abandon anything cuz they didn't have it. They couldn't speak Ottoman Turkish, let alone read or write. 3. New vocabulary to replace Arabo-Persian loan words was made of transparent Turkic roots that were already in use with regular folks. Unintelligible müselles became a clear cut üçgen from üç - three and gen - corner, angle (in shapes), beşgen - five-corner (pentagon), altıgen - six-corner (hexa-gon). Arabic matbaa became baskı (press, from basmak - step on, press). Arabic tayyare was replaced with uçak - fly-thing (airplane from uçmak - to fly), seyyare became araba (car, araba used to mean cart), istiklal became bağımsızlık (lit. connectionlessness, independence) etc etc etc. The meaning of 99% of Turkish non-loan words is easily derived from their morphemes. You don't need too much effort to learn them. For comparison. *Ottoman:* _Müsellesin sathı yatalay, dikeley zarbının müsavatına müsavidir._ Arabo-Persian gibberish. Not a single school boy or girl can understand without first learning Arabic and Persian words and grammar. *Modern Türkish:* _Üçgenin alanı, tabanı ile yüksekliğinin çarpımının yarısına eşittir._ The latter is clear without effort cuz every single word is turkish made of Turkic roots and morphenes that had been in use for centurues before the cancellation of the Ottoman Tirkish. The reform cancelled the use of the Ottoman Turkish and replaced it with the natural Istanbul dialect of the Tirkish language and used it potential to derive new words with meanings clear from the time you see or hear them. It's like as if English replaced all its Latin and French words with Germanic ones: triangle - threecorner, manager - handler, royal - kingly, senior - older etc etc.

the title is misleading

the purification process did not take place by jouranalist ''making up'' words, words, terms that already existed in Anatolian villages, rural areas, or from old books and some from Central Asian Turks that is still spoken, were adopted

Bros not showing a full pick of turkey

Heyyy which Anatolia map do yo show? You show only the half of the Anatolia

south eastern Anatolia is missing in your map and eastern Thrace.

Awesome video, you got yourself a new subscriber, language enthusiast👍

Thank you for not being politically blind while describing Anatolian languages. As additional, I can just say that, like in any other place in the earth, there are much more lost languages in that geography, even neanderthals, which was another human specie, used to speak a language or maybe multiple languages! Those guys were the ones who are documented. Plus, there are some other languages which were documented even Celtic, Kashka, Cimmerian, Semitic, Scythian etc. languages.

Actually, nobody knows what was spoken. Only written languages were the language of the rulers, which did not necessarily had the same linguistic and ethnic background as the common folks, which were mostly slaves. Rulers were usually invited/selected by the few priviledged. Hittites apparently were the source of rulers for much of the area.

Title needs to be changed as it is quite misleading

First, the Hattic language related to the North West (not North East) is debated anyway. Furthermore, there is an Hattic word (not in the video) very persistent. tauwa 'fear, shock', passed through Greek θαῦμα, θῶμα, θῶυμα 'wonder, astonishment', hence Latin and English (thaumaturgic).

We don't know the language of first Neolithic farmers from 10k years ago, but it definitely wasn't Hattian. Hattian is a name of language from around 2000-1000BC. There's six thousands years of difference. Even if no migrations had happened in-between, which is highly unlikely, Hattians couldn't possibly speak the same language for so long.

Very misleading title and thats very wrong!

Your map is wrong. This is pretty hilarious

"[Anatolian] Hittite split from the Indo-European language family much earlier than most other branches." ?? Anything that we categorize as a distinct language has, by definition, differentiated itself, right? How is becoming a distinct language different than 'splitting' off? Do you just mean that these languages came earlier than other groupings of languages that we now categorize as branches?

Your Anatolian map is wrong not only politically, but also legally and scientifically. It is an insultive map. You are going to be complained if you do not correct the map.

The title is completely wrong!!! Tell the audience for 10 minutes the language history of a region to say the opposite of the title! Change the title! Ottoman turkish was only a written language! Even the people at the palace didn't speak like that although their language had more of those "ottoman" words than the language of the peasants. There is a wrong statement in the video, too. "How made he 13 mio people forget how they speak and write?" You yourself say that the language reform was executed to increase literacy rates. At that time the literacy rate was below 5%, so - if 13 mio is the accurate number - that means around 500000 and the most of them new foreign languages including french (the world language that time) and some other european languages. So they were highly educated people and therefore they knew that the arabic alphabet is not fitting to the turkish language. One strategy to find new "native" words was also to ask the people how they call certain things in their local dialect via newspaper. An other strategy was to check older ottoman texts to find out how it was called before the loanwords entered. So it was not changing the way how people spoke but making the written language more fitting to the spoken language.

Turks carry ANF DNA

What does an ancient Hittite language have anything to do with what is spoken in modern day Turkey? Very irrelevant video.

The map of Turkiye is larger.

Turkish is similar to Kazak, turkmenistan, kirgiztan 40% mongolian language since they come crom central asia. Whta they speak now is 60% combinatiin of Persian, Kurdish, Arabic mixex with turkik lanuage

Why is actively removing foreign loanwords seen as a good thing? It involves manipulating the language for what reason exactly...? What did average turks really stand to get by saying açı instead of zaviye ( both meaning angle, the latter being an arabic loan ). Nothing really, and changing the words everyone already knew for... strenghtening national identity ??? comes off as just excessively nationalistic and even a bit fascistic.

Reported for using an incorrect map of Turkey.

Turkish is very close to proto turkic for example bıyık means mustache and bıdık is proto turkic so 2.500 bc totaly 4,500 years ago there are crayz similarities between turkish and proto turkic and old oghuz language that was spoken in seljuk locals was also extremely similar to proto turkic celstial turkic language was much more closer to proto turkic and some historians say todays mongolian language has 30%turkic language and some even say 40% bc of extreme turkic influence in mongolian tribes for example si de da in these end words are very common in proto turkic and even todays turkish this guy tells you what west propaganda tells you

Bullshit.

Map is soo correct, the remaining area is Kurdistan and mothe language is Kurdish-

Hattians were not "Neolitchic Anatolian farmers". ANF people predate Hattians. Hattians were people who came from the Caucasus, quite probably(The most prominent estimate) they spoke a language that ought to be related with the ancestral Northern Caucasus(ancestor of both NE and NW Caucasian languages), and quite probably due to PIE people pushing them from northern steppes inside Anatolia.

Sorry for them STILL Turish is FULL of Persian and Arabic words in particular. SO MUCH SO that you CANT speak Turkish without Persian and Arabic loan words. It has no basic word for "Window" or "He/She" or "Love" or "Family" or any administrative word. All are taken from Arabic and Persian.

i'm here to observe the angry turkish screams

Besides, only 5% of people were literate, and "half of the vocabulary" were loanwords only in the High Ottoman, which was the book language. Common people spoke Turkish, which didn't have more than 15% loanwords. Today the modern Turkish language, this ratio is like ~12%. So nothing really changed in terms of "spoken" language. Stop repeating myths and parrotisms and do your research properly especially about countries "outside" of your box.