| Home Translation for U.S. immigration Translation for universities Translation of personal and business messages U.S. immigration forms and information Information on Turkey Türkçe | Turkish OrthographyDiscovering the Roots of the Turkish Language Languages that affected Turkish languageThe Turkish language is not Indo-European language in which you may find common words and roots. However, modern Turkish language borrowed from French, Russian, Arabic, and English language extensively. You can find lots of English words in the field of computers and Internet-related areas. Modern Turkish orthographyThe modern Turkish orthography reflects the sounds in spoken language in a totally transparent representation. The letters in the Turkish alphabet are totally one-to-one, explicit, and context independent. As a result, there are no irregularities in reading, writing or dictation.
Turkish suffixes, vowels, and casesExtensive use of suffixes causes morphological parsing of words. The words and sentences become long and complicated as a result of these suffixes. The modern Turkish script does not allow morphological generalizations that existed in the Ottoman script. There are two types of Turkish vowels: front vowels and back vowels. Vowel harmony means that all vowels in a given word should belong to the same class, as well as the vowels in suffixes added to the word. Turkish nouns have six cases: nominative, genitive, accusative, dative, locative, and ablative. Verbs must agree with their subjects in both case and number. Summary Meaning of Language TermsOrthography: Spelling of words Phonology: Sounding of words Semantic: Meaning of words UCLA Language Materials Project has some background information on the Turkish language. |