Hurûf-ı munfasıla is an alternative way to write Ottoman Turkish that was created in 1914 by Enver Pasha (İsmâil Enver), an Ottoman Turkish military officer and revolutionary. He believed that the Otttoman Turkish alphabet was difficult to learn with its changing letter shapes and the absence of vowels. In his new alphabet, each letter is written separately, has only one form, and the vowels were all written, making it easier to learn. It also maintains links to the past, and would not affect the learning of the Quran too much.
Hurûf-ı munfasıla is also known hatt-ı cedîd, hatt-ı, Enver Paşa Alfabesi, Enverî, Enveriye, the Enver script, the Army Alphabet or the German script. The name Hurûf-ı munfasıla / حروف منفصله means "separate letters".
Enver Pasha published a book teaching his alphabet in 1917, and as Minister of War, he ordered his alphabet to be used for army correspondence, maps, regulations and other printed materials. Since it took more time and effort to write than the standard Ottoman Turkish alphabet, and texts in it took up a lot more space, it was not very well suited to use by the military, who needed to send messages quickly. It fell out of use after World War I.
The Latin alphabet was adapted and adopted for Turkish in 1928, and Enver Pasha's alphabet was largely forgotten.
Source:https://kabk.github.io/go-theses-23-hilal-mutluel/
This text shows the Hurûf-ı munfasıla in black, and the standard Ottoman Turkish alphabet below it.
Information about Turkish | Phrases | Numbers | Family words | Time | Tongue twisters | Tower of Babel | Hurûf-ı munfasıla | Books about Turkish on: Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk [affilate links]
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Information about Hurûf-ı munfasıla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurûf-ı_munfasıla
https://yenidenergenekon.com/272-enver-pasa-alfabesi-huruf-i-munfasila/
https://saadetkapisi.blogspot.com/2012/04/enveri-harfler-yahut-huruf-i-munfasla.html
https://kabk.github.io/go-theses-23-hilal-mutluel/
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