yalvaç || peygamber || peygamber || prophet || fakı || imâm || imam || imam |- | yüce Çalap || Âli Allah || yüce Allah || mighty God || eyne || câmi || cami || mosque |- | mezgit || mescid || mescit || masjid || gümeç, lavâşa, pişi || ekmek || ekmek, lavaş, pişi || bread, lavash, boortsog |- | kekremsi || şarâb || şarap || wine || Kancarıdaydın? || Nerede idin? || Neredeydin? || Where were you? |- | Kancarı yılıgan be? || Nereye gidersin bire? || Nereye gidersin bre? || Where are you going? || Muhıdı geyen mi? || Ferâce giyermisin? || Ferace giyer misin? || Will you wear ferace? |- | Bargım yavıncıdı. || Karnım ağrıdı. || Karnım ağrıdı. || My stomach hurt. || şarıkdı || şehirli oldu || Şehirli oldu. || They became urban. |- |} Language reform and modern Turkish After the foundation of the modern state of Turkey and the script reform, the Turkish Language Association (TDK) was established in 1932 under the patronage of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, with the aim of conducting research on Turkish. One of the tasks of the newly established association was to initiate a language reform to replace loanwords of Arabic and Persian origin with Turkish equivalents. By banning the usage of imported words in the press, the association succeeded in removing several hundred foreign words from the language. While most of the words introduced to the language by the TDK were newly derived from Turkic roots, it also opted for reviving Old Turkish words which had not been used for centuries. In 1935, the TDK published a bilingual Ottoman-Turkish/Pure Turkish dictionary that documents the results of the language reform. Owing to this sudden change in the language, older and younger people in Turkey started to differ in their vocabularies. While the generations born before the 1940s tend to use the older terms of Arabic or Persian origin, the younger generations favor new expressions. It is considered particularly ironic that Atatürk himself, in his lengthy speech to the new Parliament in 1927, used a style of Ottoman which sounded so alien to later listeners that it had to be "translated" three times into modern Turkish: first in 1963, again in 1986, and most recently in 1995. The past few decades have seen the continuing work of the TDK to coin new Turkish words to express new concepts and