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TURKISH LANGUAGE ORIGINS. Presented by Turkish students. LANGUAGES. URAL-ALTAIC. TURKISH LANGUAGE TREE. Countries with significant Turkish-speaking populations. Total speakers:over 100 million worldwide Ranking:23
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TURKISH LANGUAGE ORIGINS Presented by Turkish students
Total speakers:over 100 million worldwide Ranking:23 • Language family:Altaic (controversial)TurkicSouthwestern Turkic (Oghuz) Western OghuzTurkish Writing system:Latin alphabet (Turkish variant)
Official language in: Turkey Northern Cyprus Cyprus Kosovo (regional) Macedonia(regional) Romania(recognized) Iraq (In Kerkük, Tal Afar)
SPOKEN IN • Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,and by immigrant communities in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United StatesNorthern Cyprus (recognized only by Turkey)
Features of Turkish Language • With a few exceptions, the main features which distinquish the Altaic languages from Indo-European are as follows: • Vowel harmony is a feature of all Ural-Altaic tongues • No gender • Agglutination • Adjectives precede nouns • Verbs come at the end of the sentence!!
Question 1 Turkish belongs to …… linguistic family A)Brahmic B)Ural-Altaic C)Indo-European
Question 2 • Verbs come at the end of the sentence A)TRUE B)FALSE
Question 3 Which one is pronunces as ‘A’ in Turkish? A)Ugly B)Elephant C)Urge D)Shelf
Question 4 Which one is pronunced as ‘C’ in Turkish? A)Fruit B)Bell C)Jealous D)Federal
Question 5 In which country the spoken language is Turkish? A)Russia B)Mongolia C)Afghanistan D)Kazakhistan
Last Question • Which one comes at the end of the sentence in Turkish A)Object B)Verb