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Mughals
May 22, 2011 19:17:05 GMT 3
Post by pohjanpoika on May 22, 2011 19:17:05 GMT 3
The Mughals later started to use the persian langauge. Was that only the people of the court who did? Or was it spread among all chagatai speaking mughals? Also how was the life for the normal chagatai speaking ppl in the Mughal Empire. Where they mostly soldiers? For how long did the langauge survive?
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Mughals
May 23, 2011 15:49:55 GMT 3
Post by Temüjin on May 23, 2011 15:49:55 GMT 3
as early as Padshah Akbar (Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad), he spoke persian but not Chagatai anymore. Babur wrote his memories in Chagatai, with some Persian and Arabian here and there, his cousin Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat Khan wrote the history of Mughals (incl his own as ruler of Kashmir) completely in Persian. however the Mughal (and previous Delhi Sultanate) military system in India was such that there was a constant influx of Turanian warrior-nobles who took offices in the Mughal system, so perhaps Chagatai, or later derivative dialects respectively, never died out completely.
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