Turkish Language

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The Turkish language is not an Indo-European language.

It belongs to the Altay branch of the Ural-Altay linguistic family. The languages of this family are called Altaic because they are believed to have originated in the high lands around the Altay Mountains of Central Asia. More than 90 percent of all contemporary speakers of Altaic languages speak a Turkish language. The peoples of this region led a nomadic life. Turks, too, for centuries being nomads, took their language along whereever they moved. The Turkish language now stretches from the Mongolian lands and China to the present day Turkey. The far eastern border of the language now is where once the Turkish people have originated from. And..
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Originally posted by anarresliler
The Turkish language is not an Indo-European language.

It belongs to the Altay branch of the Ural-Altay linguistic family. The languages of this family are called Altaic because they are believed to have originated in the high lands around the Altay Mountains of Central Asia. More than 90 percent of all contemporary speakers of Altaic languages speak a Turkish language. The peoples of this region led a nomadic life. Turks, too, for centuries being nomads, took their language along whereever they moved. The Turkish language now stretches from the Mongolian lands and China to the present day Turkey. The far eastern border of the language now is where once the Turkish people have originated from. And..
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One more thing:

Turkish belongs to this branch because of the grammar...very similar to Mongolian, Korean...one, the Altaic languages have in common only the grammar, I mean, suffixes, prefixes, declinations, verb conjugation, sentence formation... but in vocabulary...they are totally different! The Turkish language (Turkey´s) is the Ottoman Turkish´s daughter...this Turkish language is trying to get its original purity..., as we know, Turkish (specially Ottoman T.)has a lot of borrows from Arabic and Persian and for every Arabo-Persian word, there´s a pure Turkish one...for the student it´s very boring, because he has to learn four words in place of two (the word and its synonimus), the word, its synonimus, the Arabo-Persian equivalent and the Arabo-Persian synonimus...as it was not good enough, many Turks hate the Arabo-Persian words, so the student has to be always paying good attention to what he better say...
But it´s very worthy, the Turkish language is beautiful, good-sounding, very rational, rich vocabulary,....
Well, oooooof course you won´t understand easily the Turks from Central Asia if you learned Turkey´s Turkish...you´ll have to learn many things before..., their languages are very near, like Portuguese and Spanish, Dutch and German, but they are tongues that developed separated... and it, of course, means something...
Other speakers of Turkish are: Circassians(not a Turkish people), Bulgarian-Turks, Macedonian-Turks, Turkmens in Iraq, Kurds in Iraq (in Turkey, of course!), Armenians,... Turkish can be heard from Belgrad to the entrance of Shinkyang (China).

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