zippy

hello to all,

thanks to your interest. In fact, I do not claim that latin and turkish are really related to each other. I know they belong to different language groups. That's why I was so surprised and found it very interresting that knowing latin helped me a lot with turkish. Unfortunatly I was the only one in my turkish class that ever had latin lessons, so I couldn't share my "discovery".

I just wondered whether anybody else knows both languages and made the same experience.

Greetings
Zippy

Kadear

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I didn't study latin, but I started to learn turkish on my own, and I realized from your examples that I still have a ton to learn!! Do you have any advice, adress or contact to help me with this?

Kadear

RyanGiggs

it is really hard to learn turkish by your own.But if you learn basic Turkish by the help of a course or a teacher you can develop it rapidly.
important point : spelling is so simple in Turkish.it is the same for writing or while speaking.
Good luck

carlodigiorgio

to Lina

Your quotation of Latin and Turkish belonging to the so-called "Indo-European Languages" surprises me. Modern Turkish is said to belong to the "Altaic" family and has no relation whatsoever with Latin despite its writing having been romanized with some modification of certain letters of the latin alphabet.

One example: Grammatical gender (with masculine and/or feminine categories) is commonly found in Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Northeast Caucasian, and several Australian aboriginal languages. It is mostly absent in the Altaic, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, and Uralic language families.

With 8 years Latin and 5 years ancient Greek at a Classic Lycé in Venice and as Roman Catholic having learned by heart since early age all prayers and lithurgical textes in Latin and being myself today a learner of Turkish I can't draw any parallels between both languages.

It took me no time as an adolescent to learn French, just a few months to learn Spanish and even quicker to be fluent in Portuguese and I would really love to be able to say the same for Türkçe. Unfortunately, despite the partial removal of Parsi and Arabic expressions to create the modern version and the introduction of meaning and sound (not the spelling) of mainly French nouns and verbs at Kemal Atatürk's time, TURKISH remains a NON EUROPEAN language.

This fact may also be one of the main reasons for Europeans in general not to be very proficient in understanding, properly, our Turkish friends.

ergreco

Actually Turkish belongs to the Altaic group of languages (Subgroup Turkic).
Kemal Ataturk during his radical reform of the Ottoman empire into the Republic of Turkey opted to use Latin characters instead of the traditional Arabic in an effort (quite successful by the way) to modernize the newborn Republic. Otherwise Latin and Turkish share little in common