Would it be by which "language family" they fall under?
I need to know what other languages relate to
a) Turkish
b) Luganda
2006-11-07 01:11:34 · 4 answers · asked by laydeeheartless 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Turkish belongs to the widespread Turko-Mongol group originating in central Asia, which includes a range of languages including Uighir in western China.
The ancestral Turks came from central Asia in post-Christian times, and their language replaced (probably) a range of forms of Greek, relatives of Hebrew and Arabic, and possibly things we no longer know about.
Language families are identified mainly by comparison of basic words - family terms, parts of the body, everyday household words etc that are least likely to be borrowed from other languages. Grammatical structures also indicate relationships.
Can't help with Luganda I'm afraid - never heard of it!
2006-11-07 01:24:14 · answer #1 · answered by Paul FB 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Turkish is a member of the Turkish family of languages, which includes Gagauz and Khorasani Turkish. The Turkish family is a subgroup of the Oghuz languages, themselves a subgroup of the Turkic languages, which some linguists believe to be a part of the Altaic language family.
Like Finnish and Hungarian, Turkish has vowel harmony, is agglutinative and has no grammatical gender. The basic word order is Subject Object Verb. Turkish has a T-V distinction: second-person plural forms can be used for individuals as a sign of respect.
i can u some examples of turkish words which are borrowed by english:
airan
bairan
yoghurt
baklava
kebab......
some turkish words are borrowed from Arabic, Persian, or one of the European languages, especially French- having exactly the same literal meaning are used to express slightly different meanings, especially when speaking about abstract subjects. This is quite like the usage of Germanic words and the words originated from Romance languages in English
2006-11-07 02:13:27 · answer #2 · answered by angel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try searching for Languages of the World. There is a good on-line reference work by Herman Boel, it's available in English but I only have a Dutch website.
According to this work Luganda is spoken by the Ganda tribe in South Uganda, but it doesn't give any linguistic associations.
Surprisingly, apart from the alphabet used, Turkish speakers from Western China (Uighur) to Istanbul through Uzbekistan etc. are able to understand each other relatively well, so it seems to be more a question of dialect than separate but related languages.
It seems the Boel site is no longer available. Found another one : www.nvtc.gov/lotw/. Not as good but apart from placing Kurdistan firmly within Iraqi borders, thereby ignoring at least 20 million Kurds in Turkey, it appears adequate.
2006-11-07 07:14:12 · answer #3 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turkish is an Altaic language, related to Turkic languages, the Mongolic languages, the Tungusic languages (or Manchu-Tungus), and not always, Japanese and Korean. But according to the source (wikipedia) there is some controversy. I'll bet. You'd better take a look at the link.
Luganda seems to be less confusing (ha!). It seems to be related to Congo based languages.
2006-11-07 01:24:15 · answer #4 · answered by iwasnotanazipolka 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋