Introduction
Turkish is the national language of Turkey, and is also spoken by minority groups in Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus,
and other countries. It is the most important member of the Turkic group of languages which form a branch of
the Altaic family. There are about 70 million speakers.
Turkish was originally written in the Arabic script which, though poorly suited to the language, had been in use
since the conversion of the Turks to Islam. In 1928 President Ataturk decreed the introduction of a slightly
modified version of the Roman alphabet, consisting of twenty-one consonants and eight vowels. In Turkish, the
letters q, w, and x are absent, while the letter c is pronounced like the English j (e.g., cep-pocket), j like the
French j (jale-dew), ç is pronounced ch (çiçek-flower).
The English words "caviar", "yogurt", and "shish kebab" are of Turkish origin. The word "tulip" comes from a
Turkish word for turban, because its flower was thought to resemble a turban. The word "meander" comes from
the ancient name of the Menderes River of western Turkey, which was noted for its winding course.
Turkish is spoken/used in the following countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus (Republic of), Greece, Macedonia, and
Turkey.
Language Family
Family: Altaic
Subgroup: Turkic
Branch: Southwestern (Oghuz)
(from www.worldlanguage.com)
Thanks for the thread....I feel like I know some turkish now I recently started listending to turkish music especially Can Atilla's Cariyeler ve geceler.....I ahve not been able to get any translations on this. Can anyone help?
Sen, benim Türkçemi anladın mı? is the correct sentence
Sen : you
benim Türkçem: my Turkish
anladın ( past tense of verb: understand (you ))
anladın mı? : did you?
benim Türkçem - i : the verb (anla-) makes the noun - ı, -i
Thank-you for taking the time to explain the grammar of it. This is one of the things I continue to struggle with.
For instance, in a longer sentence with dependent clauses, what is the proper order?
I know the usual order for a Turkish sentence is: Subject, Object, Verb.
And postpositionals (what I think of as prepositions) attach to the word that they are positioning. But I haven't figured out what to do when it is a more complex sentence.
Zeynep went to the store in order to pick up the flower her son was giving to his prom date that evening.
The simple sentence: "Zeynep went to the store." I can do. "Zeynep dükkanıya gitti." (I hope I'm right on that.)
But beyond that, even if I know all of the vocabularly, I have no idea the proper word order and that can seriously change the meaning of a sentence or make it incomprehensible.
thank you . I am a teacher but I am a computer teacher not Turkish
Well, my own daughter, (that is my daughter who is a Turkish native and lived with me for a year as an exchange student) and my "niece" (also an exchange who now claims me as her "uncle") have not taught me so well in so little period of time. And my niece is a translator with a couple of books to her credit. So, I am very impressed. Maybe it is because you are a computer teacher. You know exactly how to break things into byte-sized bits of information that I can then process in a logical sequence. Anyway, I find it very helpful. Yardımınız için teşekkür ederim. Çok çok sağol.
Well, my own daughter, (that is my daughter who is a Turkish native and lived with me for a year as an exchange student) and my "niece" (also an exchange who now claims me as her "uncle") have not taught me so well in so little period of time. And my niece is a translator with a couple of books to her credit. So, I am very impressed. Maybe it is because you are a computer teacher. You know exactly how to break things into byte-sized bits of information that I can then process in a logical sequence. Anyway, I find it very helpful. Yardımınız için teşekkür ederim. Çok çok sağol.
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