We will read handwritten texts together in the classroom. You will have to participate actively in the readings and discussions of weekly assignments.
This course has three goals:
- To read handwritten archival texts in the Ottoman language.
- To transcribe Ottoman handwritten texts into Latinized alphabet with diacriticals .
- To examine primary, secondary, and tertiary historical texts to understand the nature of the language used in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- learn reading Ottoman handwritten texts from the 19th and 20th centuries, read complex texts with the help of dictionaries,
- transcribe Ottoman texts written in the handwritten rik'a script.