The Latin alphabet has been used to write Turkish since the late 1920s. Prior to the switch Turkish was written in the Arabic script for several centuries. The earliest Turkic writing, found in the Orhon inscriptions dating to the 8th century ce, is written in a script often called Turkish runes because of the characters’ visual similarities to Germanic runes.
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