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Arabic/Turkish language????
1.       Unmei-de-Lange
48 posts
 23 Jul 2010 Fri 04:54 pm

 

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1.) Is Arabic language somehow similar to Turkish language? Or is it just the culture that seems similar.

 

2.) And ´Allah´, the God of the Turks, is he believed by Egyptians also?

 

3.) The modern day Egyptian language is now Arabic, which is not Turkish right? Turkish is not Arabic, is what I think, I do not know. Is it?

I am confused.

 

One last question, 4.) Is modern Egyptian language now Turkish AND Arabic or just Arabic? It is not Egyptian, for that language died like a thousand years ago.

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Any good fellow out there who knows? {#emotions_dlg.koffie} Greatly appreciated~

2.       Nanou
36 posts
 23 Jul 2010 Fri 05:54 pm

Merhaba,

i´m egyptian and i´ve teached myself some of the turkish language so i think i can answer your questions :

1) Arabic language is simillar to Turkish in some words, and it can surprise you, at first i didn´t know but after i started learning turkish i found a lot of words similar and sometimes the same in arabic, for example room - "oda" in turkish is "oda" in arabic, but egyptian arabic and "maalesef" is an arabic word... cuma "friday" is the same word with different pronounciation like lots of other words.

2) "Allah" is what muslims call God, and it´s not God of the turks, well yea turks are muslims like millions of other people in other countries, so every muslim who speaks arabic or knows the Quran can call God "Allah".

3) Arabic is always arabic, modern, old it´s the same. If you mean egyptian, and lebanese, these are different accents and not language, we all speak arabic and can read arabic "written in books, litterature,..etc" but in egypt we speak what we call egyptian, and it´s different from lebanses but we do understand eachother. And NO Turkish isn´t Arabic, Turkish is written from left to right like english, but Arabic is the opposite You can see the first big difference

4) Egyptian language died?? Ah if you mean ancient egyptian language well yes it died with all the great pharos But Arabic didn´t turn to Turkish, and Turkish didn´t become Arabic.

Well i hope i helped you, i did the best i could...

take care

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2.) And ´Allah´, the God of the Turks, is he believed by Egyptians also?

 

What kind of a question is that :S But if this is what you ask, majority of Turks and Egyptians are Muslim and the God is called Allah in Arabic. Turkish has also another word for God, which is Tanrı.

 

3.) The modern day Egyptian language is now Arabic, which is not Turkish right? Turkish is not Arabic, is what I think, I do not know. Is it?

Modern Egyptian languages is a version of Arabic. I think (I am not sure) Coptic people in Egypt speak some similar language to ancient one. Check wikipedia.

 

One last question, 4.) Is modern Egyptian language now Turkish AND Arabic or just Arabic? It is not Egyptian, for that language died like a thousand years ago.

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Any good fellow out there who knows? {#emotions_dlg.koffie} Greatly appreciated~

 

 

3.       dilliduduk
1551 posts
 23 Jul 2010 Fri 08:12 pm

 

Quoting Unmei-de-Lange

 

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1.) Is Arabic language somehow similar to Turkish language? Or is it just the culture that seems similar.

 Etymologically Turkish and Arabic languages are very distant. Arabic is a Afro/Asiatic-Semitic language (most north african and middle eastern languages like berber and hebrew) while Turkish is an Altaic language (many central asian languages; other turkic languages like Uzbek, Uyghur, Tatar, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azeri, etc or others like mongolian, korean, etc.).

So the sentence structure and grammar are totally different. However, due to close relations especially during Ottoman Empire, there has been many word exchanges. Turkish has many Arabic loan words. Although many single words could be understood, the two languages are NOT mutually intelligible even to some extent.

 










 
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4.       Unmei-de-Lange
48 posts
 25 Jul 2010 Sun 01:27 am

Thank you all so much for clarifying that up for me. Peace~

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