language famillies?

Question

Could anyone please explain to me what other languages are related to Turkish and Luganda...and explain the reason why? And also state your source too.

Please don't cite Wikipedia as i alredy have that information as i have looked at that source; would prefer other sources.

Or ethnologue for that matter...

Answer 1

Turkish (Türkçe) is a Turkic language spoken natively by the Turkish people in Turkey, which also has speakers in Cyprus, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia and other countries of the former Ottoman Empire, as well as by several million emigrants in the European Union. The exact number of native speakers in Turkey is uncertain, primarily due to a lack of minority language data.

There is a high degree of mutual intelligibility between Turkish and other Oghuz languages such as Azeri, Turkmen, and Qashqai. If these are counted together as "Turkish", the number of native speakers is 100 million, and the total number including second-language speakers is around 125 million.

Answer 2

This might seem odd but I read a book which said that Turkish, Korean and Japanese were somehow all from the same family. I'm so sorry, I can't remember who wrote it. I wish I could, because it would be useful to me now. I will mark your interesting question on my watch list, because I want to find that author again!
Edit: I remembered the family name. It is Altaic or Ur-Altaic. Did a little research on that on the web; found Japanese, Korean and Turkish all listed as descendants, but sorry, no mention of Luganda!
There are about 50 different languages belonging to the Altaic group. In addition to Turkish, Korean and Japanese, there are Azeri, Turkmen, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Uzbec, Uigor (previously in the U.S.S.R.) and Mongolian.
If you google search "Altaic Languages" you will get a whole choice of websites. Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica amongst them.
Some websites to try:
linguistlist.org/topics/altaic
www.krysstal.com/langfams altaic
www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/march/Altaic
Hope this is helpful!

Answer 3

Luganda, also known as Ganda, is a Bantu language. It is spoken mainly in the Buganda region of Uganda by a population of over three million people. With 100,000 second language speakers, it is the most widely spoken second language in Uganda next to English. The language is used in some primary schools in Buganda as pupils begin to learn English, the official language of Uganda.

Bantu is a major language family of Africa, belonging to the Niger-Congo group. Bantu languages are spoken in south Cameroon, and in the south-eastern region of Nigeria close to the Cameroonian border, in Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and the southern tip of Somalia, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa. This wide expansion makes the Bantu family the most widespread language family in Africa, with about 310 million speakers.

Answer 4

I know nothing of Luganda but found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luganda_language

Turkish is a Turkic language and, as far as I'm aware (as a resident of Turkey and language teacher) not related to other non-Turkic languages except in that it has borrowed from Arabic, Farsi, French and English and has bequeethed itself in part to languages spoken in parts of the ex-Ottoman Empire.

For a detailed analysis see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language

Answer 5

This'll get you started.