Questions tagged [turkic-languages]
A language family spoken in an area from Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western China.
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"Turkic Esperanto" spoken in the Soviet army
Michael Korotkow, the author of the language learning book Kirgisisch Wort für Wort mentions in the introduction of that book that there was a Turkic Esperanto used by people of different Turkic ...
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Did Turkic languages have a different 'r' sound that couldn't be pronounced unless conected to a vowel from behind?
I'm an speaker of a dialect of the Azerbaijani language, Tabriz's(A city in Iran) dialect, to be specific. I've read before that no native Turkic words start with an 'r'. What is interesting to me is ...
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Japanese is in its own lingustic family, but it sure seems to have a lot in common with Turkish
I speak Japanese, and recently, I've been exposed to Turkish. There's a good deal of overlap between structure, and some words. An example is "good", where it's "iidesu" in ...
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Can it be that the etymology of the Balkan root for "tickle" stretches as far as Korean?
Some context first:
I am interested in the etymology of the Romanian word gâdila/gîdila ("to tickle; the â/î variation is only graphical: it's /ɨ/, the close central unrounded vowel which in ...
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was old Mongolic similar to old Turkic
if Tungusic and Mongolic similarity is just because of adoption, are Mongolic and Turkic related (from one root). But Mongolian changed later and changed much more after Tungusic adoption.
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Is the Proto-Slavic root *term (dwelling) related to the Proto-Ugric root *tärɜ „open space, room”?
I am curious about the obscure etymology of the Romanian word tărâm (realm, domain, world, geographical space -- usually a poetic word, like in the plural form alte tarâmuri = "other (foreign) ...
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Where or when did modern Turkish start using the English-like 'r'?
In the Kazakh language we don't have any rolled out American "R".
Why does Turkish have it?
When did it develop?
It's so strange to hear American R in Turkish.
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Why did auxiliary verbs in Kazakh got completely merged into one word in Turkish?
Kazakh and Turkish belong to same language group.
But Kazakh is more archaic, Turkish is more modern.
In Kazakh, there are auxiliary verbs otur, jur , and jatir that become part of the word in Turkish:...
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Do the Turkic languages have "-ia" suffix/ending to denote countries or abstract notions?
Both the Indo-European and Semitic languages have a combination of suffix+ending -i-a, which can be applied to form country names. It also conducts the feminine gender.
The IE and Semitic suffixes are ...
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What can explain the appearance of "self-made" language features if neither of languages a person speaks or learns have similar features?
I know a woman, whose native language is Kyrgyz (Turkic family) and who learned Russian as an adult (mostly, maybe she was somewhat exposed to it before as well).
What striked me is that she invented ...
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What is considered a grammatical case in the framework of turkic languages?
Let's take kazakh language as an example. In every source I've read there are 7 cases in kazakh language:
nominative üi - a house, baqşa - garden;
genitive üi-diŋ - of a house, baqşa-niŋ - of a ...
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What language was spoken in East Asia before Proto-Turkic?
From Wikipedia we have:
The Proto-Turkic language is the linguistic reconstruction of the
common ancestor of the Turkic languages that was spoken by the
Proto-Turks before their divergence ...
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What are "Auxilliary nouns" in Kyrgyz?
I have heard that the Kyrgyz language has some special words termed "auxilliary nouns" (жардамчы атоочтор in Kyrgyz), but I wasn't able to find out what those words are and how they work in that ...
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How "üçün" is Turkic but "çün" is Iranic?
Azerbaijani: çün
Persian: çun
Means: because
Origin: Persian
Azerbaijani: üçün üç+ün
old-Turkic: uçun
Means: because of
Origin: old-Turkic
So, can somebody explain how this is possible?
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Turkic etymology dictionary
Is there a new Turkic etymology dictionary?
I don't want something like Nişanyan which all Turkic words are Sogdian or Persian origin.
I want something that analyses the words using true rules not ...
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From which language was the Finnish word for "language" derived?
I have noticed that several "Altaic" languages have similar words for "language," but I do not know whether this is a coincidence, or due to historical language contact.
The word "kieli" in Finnish ...
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Accuracy of automatic (machine) translation between two languages in same language family
Are there any statistics on the accuracy of automated (program/machine) translation from one language to another language of the same language family?
For example from Turkish to Azerbaijani, Uzbek, ...
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Are Hungarian and Turkish related?
I was told by somebody who has lived near Hungary that she thought that Hungarian and Turkish were related, and that their languages are very similar. A brief google search seems to support this.
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Configurational assignment of accusative case?
I'm an undergraduate linguistics student, and I'm currently reading this chapter by Coon & Preminger (2015) (http://ling.umd.edu/assets/publications/Coon-Preminger-17-SplitErgativity.pdf), which ...
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If I learn Persian/Farsi, could I be able to understand Uighur language?
Ok, someone once told me that Uighur is a Turkic langugage. But just wondering, for Persian and Uighur, the two, Are they similar in any way? or just helps a little bit? Could one understand another?
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Turkish "Yaz" vs. Azerbaijani "Yaz"
In some Turkic languages (like Turkish and Kazakh), the word Yaz means Summer, while in other Turkic languages (like Azeri, Chuvash and Yakut) the very same word means Spring. The Old Turkic meaning ...
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Does anyone knows a work on Mongolian loanwords in Turkic languages?
Especially in Western branch of Turkic languages.
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Is the the Turkish word kin 'hate, venom etc' restricted to Anatolian-Turkish only?
The word kin 'hate, venom, spite' is quite unusual and took my attention for its meaning 'venom'. Is it an Anatolian-Turkish/Azeri only word or is it common in other Turkic languages? Does anyone know ...
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What were the pre-Arabic Turkic words used for greeting?
Most Turkic languages use the Arabic words for greeting, namely salam/selam/merhaba etc. The exceptions are Tatar isänmesez and Uighur yakhshimusiz, the origin of which I do not know. Are they Turkic? ...
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Etymology of the Turkish word for copper (bakır)
I've been looking for a good explanation on the origin of the turkish word bakır, but I can't find much on it. Is it a loan or is it really a Turkic word for copper?
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Are these Kazakh words considered borrowings (from Russian?) or onomatopoieias?
These three words are very similar in English, Russian and Kazakh. At least the Russian set is considered inherited from PIE.
English - Russian - Kazakh
crush - крушить (krushitь) - қырш (qyrsh)
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Origins of Turkic language family? Alternatives to Altaic?
I was just reading about various Altaic language grouping hypotheses on wikipedia. According the article, evidence for an Altaic language family that would include Turkic, Uralic, Mongolian, Tungusic, ...
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What is this language? [closed]
This text was found in Bolu, Turkey, at my uncle's house. What language is it written in?
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What's the relation between Germanic suffixes -ly, -lich, -lijk, ... and Turkic suffixes -lik -liq
What's the relation between Germanic adjectival/adverbial suffixes
-ly, -lich, -lijk, ...
and Turkic suffixes
-lik -liq
that convert nouns/adjectives to nouns
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Is "Kent" in Tashkent of Turkic origin or Indo-European?
In Turkish there is this word Kent which means city. Some Turkic city names have this as a suffix, like Başkent and Tashkent. In Azerbaijani the same word, with the spelling of Kənd (Kand) means ...
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Could Turkish "küçük" and Mongolian "жижиг" be related?
I'm in Mongolia trying to learn some Mongolian and I've come across their cute word for "litlle", "small": жижиг.
On previous trips through Turkey I recall learning a similar cute word for "little", "...
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Linguistic relation Turkish dada English dad
Both are informal words meaning father. It is interesting that I couldn't find a similar word in other Germanic and Latin languages. It looks that this word has directly migrated from central asia to ...
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The reason for similarity of Turkic "min" and latin "mille", Turkic "dil" and dutch "taal"?
What's the linguistic relation between
the Turkic words bin or min and Latin word mille meaning thousand
Turkic dil and dutch taal meaninge language?
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The "close front rounded vowel" mainly used in Germanic, Altaic and far Asian languages
Why is the "close front rounded vowel" /y/ mainly used in Germanic, Altaic and far Asian languages but rare in Latin*, Indo-Iranian and Slavic languages?
Can we say that Germanic phonetics is less ...
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Lingustic relationship between plural suffixes in Turkish and -er in some Nordic/Germanic languages
What's the linguistic relationship between plural suffixes "-ler/-lar" in Turkish and "-er" in some Nordic/Germanic languages?
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Relationship between Turkish/Azeri and Japanese/Korean
How are Turkish and Azeri related to Japanese and Korean? Are there obvious similarities between them?
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