what's the language spoken in turkey, arabic or turkish.
what's the language spoken in turkey, arabic or turkish.
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Turkish, which is totally different from Arabic.
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Turkish is a member of a widespread, but broken chain of languages related to the central Asian Altaic language group (which includes Chinese). Also in this loosely-tied family is Hungarian.
This is due to the spread of Mongol peoples and their kin (like Turks, who were from central Asia) all over the continent.
Turkish was written in Arabic script for centuries. Since Kemal Ataturk, it has been written with Western (Roman) script.
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The closest relative of Hungarian is Finnish, which expalins why all the Finns in the world appear at the Hungarian grand Prix
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Phew
finally an explanation
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ok. then what's with
the language groups
Asian altaic
Sino-tibetan
Afro-Asian
i mean, i thought chinese was in sino tibetan?
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Confucius said He who sleeps with itchy buttocks, wakes up with smelly fingers
erm...... turkish, not surprisingly
GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.
Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit 1944
Are Altaic and Sino-Tibetan at the same level? Sino-Tibetan might be a subgroup of Altaic.
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Turkish language belongs to the turk language family. Not Altaic or Sino-Tibetian. It is very similar to the languages of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaidjan). Mongolian language is from another linguistic family.
Hungarian and Finnish languages as Estonian language and almost all carelian ones are all from one family - finn-ugrik group. The ancestors of modern Hungarians, Finnish, Eestii came to Europe from Ural mountains thousands years ago. BTW the province Volga-Bulgaria was inhabited long ago by finn-ugrik tribes. They assimilated with local population and dissapeared after mongol invasion.
As far as I know there are 11 “main” language “families”:
- Indo European with members like English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, Greek, Hindi, Bengali and of course Latin, Sanskrit, and Persian.
- Uralic in which Hungarian, Finnish and Mordvin belong.
- Sino-Tibetian (Chinese dialects, among others)
- Malayo-Polynesian (Malay, Indonesian, Maori, Hawaian)
- Afro-Asiatic (Arabic, Hebrew among others)
- Caucasian (Georgian, Chechen the dominant)
- Dravidian (southern India – Tamil)
- Austro-Asiatic (Vietnamese, Khmer)
- Niger-Congo (most languages in southern of Sahara Africa including Swahili, Shona, Xhosa and Zulu)
- Altaic (Turkic and Mongolic languages)
Also, there are several "lesser" (smaller) families and also “independent” languges, not fitting in any language group, like Basque.
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