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Turkish vacation
This writing assignment caught me in the middle of my vacation. I am writing this piece in the middle of my vacation.I'm spending it in Turkey. Hardly anyone of the local persons speaks English or Russian here, my native languages.(my native language). Besides that And besides, I have a lot of spare time here - accordingly to these reasons, so I decided to learn the basics of Turkish language. It turned out to be a very engrossing activity; and in the post I'll try to tell you some fresh-learned colourful linguistic factsso I'm going to tell you about some of the colorful variations of the language and culture.
More than one Over a hundred years ago Turkey was a part of Ottoman Empire. The main language of the state was a mix from of Arabic, Persian and an ancient version of theTurkish languages.Besides, However, the Arabic writing was used. It didn't fit well to with the Turkish spoken language, and this inconvenience led to the huge number of illiterate people. As one of the reforms After in the establishment of the modern Republic of Turkey, as one of reforms, the Ottoman script was replaced with the Latin alphabet.
Actually, due to the reforms the new version of language was created artificially (not sure what 'artificially' means in this context). As consequence of that fact, the Turkish almost has no exceptions (not sure what exceptions means here). It is a phonetic also language which. It means that all words are sounded sound as like as they are written. The nouns don't have a gender, and the verbs don't change theirs endings due to their gender, like they do in Russian, for example. All these factors significantly simplify the learning of the language.
But there is a fly in the ointment (correct, but use only when speaking). However, The Turkish is an agglutinative language. It which means that there is a are root words, and we should add different morphems (like stems and affixes) to the end to modify the sense. You can build a whole sentences in this way! It's a really exotic feature for the native European. For example, the word "evlerinizden", or "from your houses", consists of the morphems ev-ler-iniz-den, with the meanings house-plural-your-from. The popular here is the 44-letter word Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmışsınız, meaning "You are said to be one of those that we couldn't manage to convert to a Czechoslovak". Such a phrase is obviously meaningless, but it's pretty illustrative for language opportunities.
So, that's the story of an ordinary vacation led to the bunch of fun language and historical experience. Be curious!0 votedAugust 17, 20160

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