Draft:Yeni Lisan Movement

The Yeni Lisan Movement (یكی لسان), is a literary movement initiated by Genç Kalemler magazine in order to reform the Ottoman Turkish language.

The principals of Ottoman Turkish reform suggested by the Yeni Lisan Movement are:


 * 1) No grammatical structures to be used in Turkish from Arabic and Persian such as ezāfe.
 * 2) Reforming the spelling: The spelling of loanwords from Arabic and Persian should match with their pronunciations. (Because Ottoman Turkish preserved "archaic" spellings even though the pronunciation of the words drastically changed).
 * 3) Creation of a new written standard based on the Istanbul dialect.