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The Old Anatolian Turkish (Modern Turkish: Eski Anadolu Türkçesi ) is the stage in the history of the Turkish language spoken in Anatolia from the 11th to 15th century. It developed into Early Ottoman Turkish. It was written in the Arabic script. Unlike in later Ottoman Turkish short-vowel diacritics were used.Old Anatolian Turkish was widely spoken in the entire area of Anatolia.[citation needed] Despite of this it had no official status.