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how words are there?
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17 Aug 2006 Thu 08:17 am |
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how many words are there in the turkish language?
i hope you find a relaiable source.
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18 Aug 2006 Fri 05:57 pm |
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We have a dictionary with about 150.000 entries.(the most advanced one)
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18 Aug 2006 Fri 06:07 pm |
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alot..
it is just as many words as there is in the english language isn't there?
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18 Aug 2006 Fri 06:09 pm |
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The recent updated Oxford dic. has almost 700,000 entries.
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19 Aug 2006 Sat 01:57 am |
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Quoting qdemir: The recent updated Oxford dic. has almost 700,000 entries. |
A third of which are absolete, unnecessary, and some even stupid; still some are used only in the Caribbean, whose name I have heard for the first time thanks to Oxford, or in South Africa.
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19 Aug 2006 Sat 02:28 am |
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Quoting cyrano: Quoting qdemir: The recent updated Oxford dic. has almost 700,000 entries. |
A third of which are absolete, unnecessary, and some even stupid; still some are used only in the Caribbean, whose name I have heard for the first time thanks to Oxford, or in South Africa. |
Cyrano Sorry.. but this coment made me laugh!!
 hahaha!!
Its true.. there are a looooooooots of words unnecessary..
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19 Aug 2006 Sat 05:25 am |
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According my research on this topic, written Turkish (which has much more words than spoken Turkish) has 24.000 words.
Once we were working on frequency lists of Turkish words and I collected lots of e-books and then we scanned them with a computer program that could eliminate suffixes. The result was a little more than 24.000.
Said that, I think in spoken language we have much less. I don't know certain figures on spoken language but probably an educated person could use 10.000 words. I guess Turkish top models use about 2000 words and our politicians use about 1000.
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19 Aug 2006 Sat 10:12 am |
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Quoting KaraKartal: Quoting cyrano: Quoting qdemir: The recent updated Oxford dic. has almost 700,000 entries. |
A third of which are absolete, unnecessary, and some even stupid; still some are used only in the Caribbean, whose name I have heard for the first time thanks to Oxford, or in South Africa. |
Cyrano Sorry.. but this coment made me laugh!!
hahaha!!
Its true.. there are a looooooooots of words unnecessary.. |
No need to be sorry. As I said, some are even stupid!
Ehi!
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20 Aug 2009 Thu 04:52 pm |
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The number of root words in Turkish according to Turkish Language Association are 96.000
These are root words. that is to say words having no suffixes forming new word.
Forexample
ev is a root word. But: evermek, evcil, evlek, evlik, evlenmek are derivated from word ev.
The number in the last published dictionary is 600.000
all of the words root or derivated or borrowed
Actually there are lots of Turkish words (which are forgetten) in old Turkish we can see this in Kashgarli Mahmud Turkish dictionary (written 1000 years ago)
some of them is used in idioms or some regions only or in other turkic languages
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14 Jan 2010 Thu 05:26 pm |
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´´The 2005 edition of Güncel Türkçe Sözlük, the official dictionary of the Turkish language published by Turkish Language Association, contains 104,481 words, of which about 86% are Turkish and 14% are of foreign origin.[56] Among the most significant foreign contributors to Turkish vocabulary are Arabic, French, Persian, Italian, English, and Greek.´´
From Wikipedia
I saw on TV the president of Turkish Language Association and he was announcing that Turkis Language Association is preparing a new dictionary, it will have about 600.000 words. And of course -in my opinion- most of the words will be useless, forgotten old, thecnical terms, or local words form different places; as in the other language´s huge gigantic dictionaries do have..... The new dictionary will contain as many words as possible from local dialects, from old-new written Turkish Books etc...
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