Questions tagged [turkish]
Spoken in Turkey - the most widely spoken Turkic language.
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Reversal of kinship terms when speaking to a child
When Turkish people speak to children, they often address them with the kinship term that the child is supposed to use for the speaker. For example a mother may call her child "anneciğim" ("my dear ...
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Turkish voice to text speech recognition references
Does anybody know what is approach implemented in Google Speech API and Siri for Turkish voice to text speech recognition?
I'm interested in details of these two services, not the general or ...
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Is Turkish older than Bulgarian?
I've read that Turkish is a very very old language, but I can't really find an information of how old Bulgarian language is. And I wonder which of those two languages is older.
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Similar diminutive name construction in Turkish and Armenian
In Armenian diminutive for personal names are formed by adding 'o' for some short part of the name (I'm intentionally not calling this short form "root" cause it's not necessarily a root), so some ...
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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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Is “Qadaqan” Mongolian or Turkish? [closed]
In Persian, the word Qadaqan (q is an uvular stop consonant, i.e. having the same place of articulation as the French r) means "emphasis" and "illegal", in some Persian dictionaries it is mentioned as ...
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why is erdogan pronounced erdowan? [duplicate]
i've heard the Turkish president's name pronounced in about 100 ways. what's the right way, and how does that connect with the latin letters?
P.s. this is not a duplicate. I did not ask about g in ...
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most common Turkish words
I'm trying to learn most common Turkish words but I can't find resources, I've already finished 1000 words. Where do I find the most common Turkish words, at least 10k?
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Adjectives in Turkish always comes before the noun?
I've read that in Turkish adjectives always comes before the noun. So to say "nice house" we say "güzel ev".
But we also could say "the house is nice", and in that case this becomes "ev güzel".
My ...
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In Turkish, regarding the locative, how do we know which suffix (-de or -da) should be used?
I'm studying Turkish, and regarding the locative, I've learned that it is implemented by adding the suffix -DA or -TA, the latter being used when the word starts with "p, ç, t, k, f, h, s, and ş".
So ...
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Turkish kalem: from Anc. Greek or Tocharian?
Usually the Turkish word kalem 'pen' is shown in etym. dictionaries to derive from Arabic qalam, which in turn derives from Greek κάλαμος. However, I noticed that Tocharian languages have the term ...
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Languages lacking detailed words for taste
Unlike most Indo-European languages Turkish for example groups some words for taste under one word e.g. acı. Are there other languages lacking words for example sour, bitter, sweet, salty, hot/sharp ...
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Alemaña/Almanya/ألمانيا etymology
Turkish, Arabic, Spanish for "Germany" are obviously cognate. But not with "Germany" or Deutschland.
At least two of them must be borrowed. Which, and what is the (commonly assumed) source?
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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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Turkish: the -DIK participles and an information loss
There is something I can't get about the -DIK participles.
When we use it to form a relative clause and make one sentence out of two sentences, the object may be originally in any case:
Accusative: ...
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Plural form declension with numbers in Turkish
When naming some number of objects, there's only one plural form in English (2 dogs, 3 dogs, 10 dogs). But in Slavic languages like Polish the form changes depending on the number (2 psy, 4 psy, 5 ...
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Statistic data on average morpheme-to-word ratios
I wonder whether there is any statistic data on morpheme-to-word ratio of certain languages. Is this something that can be and has been measured? The languages I am most interested in are the ...
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List of minimal pairs in Turkish
Is anyone aware of a resource (web-based or in print) providing a comprehensive list of minimal pairs in Turkish?
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“Torpedo compartment” for glove compartment?
In Turkish, the glove compartment of a car is called "torpido gözü", the literal translation of which is "torpedo compartment".
None of the dictionaries I have access to has an etymology for the ...
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Evidentiality: Aspect or Modality?
I was curious about evidentiality. In Turkish, evidentiality can be seen as {-mIş} suffix, but English does not have any suffix to express. Take a look at this sentence:
Babası ona yeni ayakkabı ...
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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 suffix, like Başkent and Tashkent. In Azerbaijani the same word, with the spelling of Kənd (Kand) means village ...
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Arabic and Persian loans in Turkish
Both Persian and Turkish - as have other "islamic" languages - have a great deal of Arabic vocabulary. Due to an (initially) favourable vowel inventory (and maybe due to the same script being used) ...
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Some common features of unrelated languages: Turkish and Persian
This is somehow related to the question Are some languages known to have taken grammatical features etc rather than just lexicon from their substrate languages?
In the area of today's Turkey, Iran ...
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Turkish loanwords in persian or the other way round?
It is quite obvious that there are a lot of Persian loanwords in Turkish. Some words, though, I cannot easily figure out which way they travelled.
Take for example trk. küçük, frs. kucak. I have ...
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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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Does lack of evidence count as evidentiality?
The "-mİş" forms in Turkish are traditionally given as examples of evidentiality:
geliyor (he's coming; implies direct knowledge, generally visual)
geliyormuş (he's coming; implies indirect knowledge,...
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Co-occurence of different participles in Turkish relative clause structures
Turkish has two different suffixes for relative clauses. The difference is due to the subjectivity in relative clause. In other words; if it defines a subjective, it is constructed with the suffix -En;...
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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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Are there any loanwords between Turkish and Armenian?
In the Ottoman Empire, both Turks and Armenians shared common social and cultural domains, but are there any loanwords in either language from either side - i.e. Turkish loanwords in Armenian or ...
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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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Mutual lexical borrowings between Arabic, Persian and Turkish: a reference request
As an occasional learner of these languages, I find the linguistic situation of Arabic, Persian and Turkish very interesting: they are three genetically unrelated languages (if you stick to ...
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Which language was regularly written in the most alphabets?
There are a number of languages which have historically been written in more than one alphabet (Hindi/Urdu, Serbo-Croatian, Uzbek and so on). I am wondering which single language has been regularly ...
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In Turkish, how exactly does “ğ” affect the vowel it follows?
In Standard Turkish, "ğ" is explained as having no sound of its own but instead lengthens the previous vowel.
So would "aa" and "ağ" sound alike? What about "â" and "ağa"? Can there sometimes be ...
