carlodigiorgio

Hi ERGRECO,


Definitely so as you describe: Turkish belongs to another family of languages and in modern time it has been enriched mainly by French sounding words reflecting thus the relevance of that language at Ataturk's times. He was certainly more cosmopolitan than the current political leaders.

Similar tendency was also experienced earlier on by Japanese importing words adopted from Western visiting travellers, merchants,missionaries, explorerers and navigators. In fact, an additional alphabet KATAKANA is used for such "foreign words". In today's writing is current to observe on the same text the usage of 4 alphabets:
Kanji
Hiragana
Katakana and
Latin letters.

Poor Japanese children who have to learn many more "signs" already at their early age, while we can manage to write using 24/26 letters only.

As to Turkish, it appears from many comments heard in Turkey that Koreans and Japanese people experience less difficulties in learning this Altaic language.