Talk:Fondations pieuses

French word from Wikisource:Page:Ottoman_French_Const_from_Législation_ottomane_ou_Recueil_des_Aristarchi-Bey_Grégoire_Tome5_(BnF).pdf/23 // See Languages of the Ottoman Empire and Strauss's essays on why French has affinity to the topic of the late Ottoman Empire and why French was important in that society.

This word specifically is used in the French version of the Ottoman Constitution to explain what vakouf (waqf) means. That French version was made by the Ottoman government and issued to foreign diplomats, as French had the role in the Ottoman Empire that English would have in today's society.
 * (info page on book at Martin Luther University) // p. 33 (PDF p. 35/338).

The English version at the time was a translation from the French, not the Ottoman Turkish.
 * Strauss, "A Constitution for a Multilingual Empire," p. 46 (PDF p. 48/338).

As for domestic Ottoman importance, French was the model language for versions of the Ottoman Constitution in variants for Christian and Jewish residents while Muslims got versions derived from the Ottoman Turkish.
 * Strauss, "A Constitution for a Multilingual Empire," p. 51 (PDF p. 53/338).

It was the sole common language of European origin among all people with high levels of education, even though none of the native ethnic groups in the empire used French as their native language.
 * Strauss, "A Constitution for a Multilingual Empire," p. 26 (PDF p. 28)

Redirecting this on ENwiki due to the affinity to the late Ottoman Empire (Tanzimat until 1923) WhisperToMe (talk) 23:36, 15 September 2019 (UTC)