At 2:58 PM -0500 12/28/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 12/28/2004 1:52:57 PM Central Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >I had not heard of Shoghi Effendi speaking or writing in Turkic. Do you >have a reference? > > It was the official language of the Ottoman occupiers of the Holy Land, >and the "jailers" > of Abdu'l Baha. I assume he had some fluency as did his parents and >grandparents.
I would assume he had some knowledge of Turkic, but I think fluency is going too far. Given that he had some degree of fluency in German, so far as I know he never corresponded in German with the German Baha'i community. I would not be surprised if Baha'u'llah knew some Turkic also, but He never wrote, so far as I know, in Turkic. Rather I think all His own tablets were written in Persian. Don C He who believes himself spiritual proves he is not. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, use subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu