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1. Turkic Alphabets

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   Turkish Language Reform
   The most famous instance was the Turkish language reform under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1928, replacing the Ottoman Arabic script with a phonetically standardized Latin alphabet. This alphabet was designed to be almost perfectly phonetic, with a one-to-one correspondence between phoneme and grapheme, with the notable exception of the letter $\text{C}$, which represents the sound $/d\text{ʒ}/$ (like j in English jump), a choice attributed to Atatürk's personal preference for the acoustic qual…