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Language...

Turkish is the dominant language in the Turkic language group which aiso includes such less - than - famous tongues as Kirghiz, Kazakh and Azerbaijani. Once thought to be related to Finnish and Hungarian, the Turkic languages are now seen as comprising their own unique language group. You can find people who speak Turkish, in one form or another, from Belgrade, Yugoslavia (former) all the way to Sinkiang, China.

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In 1928, Atatürk did away with the Arabic alphabet and adopted a Latin - based alphabet much better suited to easy learning and correct pronunciation. He also instituted a language reform to purge Turkish of abstruse Arabic and Persian borrowings, in order to rationalise and simplify it. The result is a logical, systematic and expressive language which has only one irregular noun ("su", water), one irregular verb ("etmek", to be) and no genders. It is sological, in fact, that Turkish grammar formed the basis for the development of Esperanto.

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Word order and verb formation are very different from those belonging to the lndo - European languages, which makes Turkish somewhat difficult to learn at first despite its elegant simplicity. Verbs, for example, consist of a root plus any number of modifying suffixes. Verbs can be so complex that they constitute whole sentences in themselves, though this is rare. The standard blow - your - mind example is,

"Afyonkarahisarlilastiramadiklarimizdanmisiniz ?"

Which means,

"Aren't you one of those people whom we tried -unsuccessfully- to make to resemble the citizens of Afyonkarahisar ?"

It's not the sort of word you see every day.