{"id":3311,"date":"2021-12-16T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T13:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitlocalturkey.com\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2023-12-20T09:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:57:27","slug":"languages-similar-to-turkish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitlocalturkey.com\/languages-similar-to-turkish\/","title":{"rendered":"Languages Similar to Turkish – Explained by a Native Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In this post, I will review languages similar to Turkish and the degree of mutual intelligibility and grammatical similarity. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As a native Turkish speaker, I feel that the Turkish language’s relations and similarity to other languages are not known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most people think that Turkish is similar to the languages of Turkey’s neighboring countries or that Turkish is a unique language on its own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet, Turkish is a vast language with mutual intelligibility with many languages of Central Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turkish is most similar to <\/b>Turkic Languages<\/a>, with a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Azerbaijani and a lesser degree of mutual intelligibility with<\/strong> Turkmen, Uzbek, Uyghur, Tatar, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz languages.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Turkic languages share nearly the same grammar and language structure. For these reasons, some also claim Turkish is not a language but a dialect of Turkic Languages.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After Turkic Languages, French, Persian<\/a>, Greek<\/a>, and Arabic<\/a> are the languages that Turkish shares the most loanwords with. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n These loanwords are a result of cultural relations, and there is no structural and grammatical similarity between these languages and the Turkish Language. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, many linguists believe that Uralic and Altaic languages have an ancestral connection with the Turkish<\/strong> Language. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Turkish is known to have grammatical similarities between Uralic (Finnish, Estonian) and Altaic<\/strong><\/strong> (Mongolian, Korean, and Japanese<\/strong>) languages but no mutual intelligibility or similar words. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s delve further…<\/p>\n\n\n\n1. My Short Answer To Languages Similar to Turkish<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
2. Quick Facts Turkish Language<\/h2>\n\n\n\n