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A written literature was developed then
by the Turkish-speaking Orthodox of the Karamania principality. This
literature was religious at the beginning, called Karamania literature.
It was written in Turkish with Greek letters by Greek writers. 
The term Karamanlis as it is used today is restrictive and vague.
All the inhabitants of Karamania are called Karamanlides. At first
the Turkish- speaking Orthodox inhabitants of Kappadokia are called
Karamanlides, too but in the end the term applied to all Turkish-
speaking Orthodox people in Asia Minor. As we have mentioned, apart
from the Turkish-speaking inhabitants of Kappadokia there were 31
Greek- speaking communities untill 1924. Dockins, the English linguist
who visited Kappadokia early in the 20th century, studied the dialects
of these villages and divided them in three groups: a) the dialect
of Silly b) the dialect of Kappadokia and c) the dialect of Farasa.
Among the Greek-speaking villages were Farasa, Malakopi, Anaku, Silata,
Floita, Axos, Troxos, Goundounos, Aravani, Misti and the colonies
of Tsarikli, Dela, Tseltek and Karadzaviran.
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