Coined by Austrian orientalist Paul Wittek in 1939, calque of Ottoman Turkish لسان ترك رومی (lisan-ı Türk-i Rumi, literally “language of the Byzantine Turks”).
Rumtürkisch n (proper noun, language name, genitive Rumtürkisch or Rumtürkischs, alternative nominative (used with the definite article) Rumtürkische, alternative genitive Rumtürkischen, no plural)
| singular (explanation of the use and meaning of the forms) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (usually without article) | noun | def. | noun | ||
| nominative | (das) | Rumtürkisch | das | Rumtürkische | |
| genitive | (des) | Rumtürkisch, Rumtürkischs | des | Rumtürkischen | |
| dative | (dem) | Rumtürkisch | dem | Rumtürkischen | |
| accusative | (das) | Rumtürkisch | das | Rumtürkische | |