Rate my language's vocabulary
Rate my language's vocabulary
Blake Harris
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Jose Moore
was turkish before attaturk more arab influenced?
Easton Perry
How the fuck did we have more influence than Greek and almost as much as Arabic?
Alexander Bennett
colonialism
Michael Perry
>spanish
uh?
Lincoln Hall
>was turkish before attaturk more arab influenced?
There were 2 Turkish languages in Ottoman empire
Raw Turkish: Spoken by nomadic Turks, sedentary Turks and soldiers
Ottoman Turkish: basically "High Turkish". Only 12% of its vocabulary was Turkish. Rest was Arabic and Persian with some slight influence from Greek and Armenian languages.
Logan Thompson
so basically you speak raw turkish now? Do you guys study arabs at school?
Aiden Gonzalez
This feels like Mehmed's wet dream. There are probably thousands of loanwards that have been skewered into Turkish sounding ones which aren't accounted for. Also what do you say for words like biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography etc..?
Chase Collins
here's should be more french
Ryder Jackson
I could easily understand a text written in "raw Turkish". The only word i didn't recognize was "maslahat" which meant "job" in Arabic.
Arabic influence on raw Ottoman Turkish is slightly more than modern Turkish. Modern Turkish is littered with European words.
>How the fuck did we have more influence than Greek
>than Greek
Greeks have almost no influence on our culture
You could say Persian instead of Greek.
and for your question: en.wikipedia.org
France has affected our culture a lot. From our "secularism" (we call it laiklik here) to language education. French was the most learned language here in Turkey till 1960s.
>so basically you speak raw turkish now?
yes. though accents vary.
>Do you guys study arabs at school?
Only English. Sometimes German and French. Only "religious students" learn Arabic here and 90% of them fail because Arabic is a very hard language.
> Also what do you say for words like biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography etc..?
Biyoloji, matematik, fizik, kimya, coğrafya
Carson Fisher
>Greeks have almost no influence on our culture
Get a load of this
Hudson Gomez
>Get a load of this
Name one Greek influence on my culture apart from mosque architecture.
I'm waiting
do not escape
and no cuisine does not count because Greeks are notorious culture thieves. Their foods still have Turkish names.
Adrian Scott
>Biyoloji, matematik, fizik, kimya, coğrafya
Yeah just as I thought. All those are Greek of origin words, and there are as many scientific words like that to cover all the 413 Greek loanwords your meme chart accounts for.
Leo Perry
Modern Turkish looks fucking retarded with all those french loanwords like asensör or müse. At least the Arabic and Persian loanwords arent completely butchered. Also fun fact in Istanbul people understand you better in Arabic than English really makes ya think
Jayden Lee
>All those are Greek of origin words
English* you fucking imbecile. We got it from the English and the English got it from the French.
The only Greek names i can think of are fish names.
also kimya is arabic.
Isaac Myers
Dominic Jackson
>Biology, maths, physics, chemistry and Geography are english of origin words
Turkish education
Luis Hill
>Also fun fact in Istanbul people understand you better in Arabic than English really makes ya think
we don't understand arabic at all apart from maşallah inşallah allahu akbar etc
but considering istanbul is full of syrians you're probably right.
This gayass hat that only ice-cream sellers wear these days? Yes it was a mistake. Mahmud II was called Giaour sultan because he made this gay-ass hat compulsory to wear for all civil servants.
Blake Barnes
>Modern Turkish looks fucking retarded with all those french loanwords like asensör or müse
also
eşarp (headscarf)
robdöşambr (robe de chambre)
laiklik (laicite)
lise (lycee)
okul (ecole)
direksiyon
kamyon
abajur
külot
pötibör (petit beurre)
ekran
galoş
kablo
portmanto
Jack Garcia
vantilatör
şöför
şezlong (chaise longue)
etc
fun fact is that Turks just directly copied the spelling too so that regular Turks can spell them correctly (minus the r sound it's hard to pronounce Turkish doesn't have that sound)
Luke Williams
rate my language
Luke Carter
>6% greek
disgusting
Jason Long
dios mio...
Ian Ross
turkish language is disgusting
not Greek
indo gypsy languages are generally better sounding
Christian Stewart
>the English got it from the French
from the Greeks*
Nicholas Cox
>english is Germanic language
Oliver Gonzalez
English reminds me of Ottoman Turkish but slightly better
Ottoman Turkish used to be only 12% Turkish
good thing is that only pedantic elites spoke it
Dominic Parker
>robdöşambr
>pötibör
>şezlong
Topkek
Justin Morales
>26% germanic
lel
Logan Young
>şezlong
same here
Gabriel Gutierrez
l'abomination de l'angleterre...
Cooper Baker
the basic grammar and structure is germanic