Turkish Language History

Turkish Language History

The Turkish Language originated in The Altai Mountain Range in Northern Siberia centuries ago. For this reason it is called an Altaic Language. As nomads expanded further into Asia Minor, they brought their language with them to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and other countries. Many of these languages are mutually intelligible although local usage and vocabulary, spelling and alphabet may differ. However they all exhibit the same grammatical structure of agglutination and vowel harmony.

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Turkish being a language emanating from Central Asia, is spoken from the borders of Greece into the hinterland of Western China. While the Ottoman Empire flourished Turkish was spoken from Vienna to Arabia, Egypt and Northern Africa. The Turkish vocabulary contains many words from Arabic, Persian and European languages. These imported words mostly follow the basic grammar and vowel harmony of native Turkish.

An Overview of The Turkish Language
In Turkish word meanings are changed by fixing other words on to the root as direct suffixes.
These little important words show motion towards/motion from or static location of the suffixed word.
The suffixes change their spelling according to set rules and they must follow the same vowel pattern Vowel Harmony as the word to which they are being added. Sometimes they also have a consonant change Consonant Mutation for ease of pronunciation.
Those added to the stem of a verb may indicate its positive or negative form. Suffixes are then added for tense and person.
Further moods may, might, can, can’t, must can be added on to the original verb root, thus producing a new verb.
Nouns are suffixed with possessor and the motion or location words are then added.
There is no definite article “the” as a subject, but there is a specifier “the” as a direct object suffix.
There are no gender forms (no “le” or “la” as in French) in Turkish. One single word is used for “he, she, it”
As in English, adjectives describe their noun and remain in their basic form; there being is no gender thus agreement is required.
The sentence form is SOV Subject, Object, Verb.

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