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'''Old Anatolian Turkish'''{{efn|Abbreviated as '''OAT'''}} ({{lang-tr|Eski Anadolu Türkçesi}}, ''{{abbrv|EAT}}'') is the stage in the history of the [[Turkish language]] spoken in [[Anatolia]] from the 11th to 15th centuries. It developed into [[Ottoman Turkish language|Early Ottoman Turkish]]. It was written in the [[Arabic script]]. Unlike in later Ottoman Turkish, [[Arabic diacritics#Ḥarakāt|short-vowel diacritics]] were used.<ref>Ergin, Muharrem, Osmanlıca Dersleri, BOĞAZİÇİ YAYINLARI, {{ISBN|975-451-053-9}} {{Page needed|date=June 2011}}</ref>
It had no official status until 1277, when [[Mehmet I of Karaman]] declared a [[firman]] in an attempt<ref>{{New Cambridge History of Islam|last=Leiser|first=Gary|chapter=The Turks in Anatolia before the Ottomans|page=310|quote=His ally the Qaramanid Muhammad (r. 660–77/1261–78) did capture Konya in 675/1276 and attempted to replace Persian with Turkish as the official government language.|volume=2}}</ref> to break the dominance of [[Persian language|Persian]]:<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = Persian authors of Asia Minor part 1 | author-last = Yazıcı | author-first = Tahsin | author-link = Tahsin Yazıcı (scholar) |url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/persian-authors-1 | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica | year = 2010 | quote = Persian language and culture were actually so popular and dominant in this period that in the late 14th century, Moḥammad (Meḥmed) Bey, the founder and the governing head of the Qaramanids, published an official edict to end this supremacy, saying that: “The Turkish language should be spoken in courts, palaces, and at official institutions from now on!” }}</ref>
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