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Do Greeks learn Turkish?
Greeks don’t learn Turkish, not just because of past antipathies, but also because they find it too difficult to be worth the effort and English is the de facto lingua franca anyway. As Geo said learning a language is an investment for most people.
Do Greeks and Turks speak the same language?
Neither. The Greek language has thousands of Turkish words, but they are pronounced in a way compatible with the phonetic system of the Greek language: For instance, the g/c sound in the Turkish words is pronounced tz, the sh/ş sound s, the ğ sound γ, etc.
Is Turkish or Greek harder to learn?
Is Turkish harder than Greek? If you are a native speaker of English or another Indo European/Western European language, Turkish is much harder than Greek. If you are a native speaker of a Turkic language, such as Azerbaijani or Uzbek, Turkish is much easier than Greek.
What language is most similar to Turkish?
Turkish is a Turkic language. Turkish is most closely related to other Turkic languages, including Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Kazakh. Another theory is that it is one of the many Altaic languages, which also include Japanese, Mongolian, and Korean….Turkish language.
Turkish | |
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Türkçe | |
Pronunciation | [ˈt̪yɾkˌtʃe] |
What language sounds closest to Greek?
In other words, which language is closest to Greek in terms of sound? The answer is simple: Spanish. Even though the two languages belong to different Indo-European branches, they sound similar, especially to our fellow Northern Europeans.
Is Greek easy for Turkish speakers?
If you are a native speaker of (an Indo-European Languages) English, French or Persian, the Greek language is easier to learn than Turkish. If you are a native speaker of Turkic Languages, Finnish, Estonian, Mongolian, Korean, or Japanese languages, Turkish will be more similar than the Greek language.
Is Greek the only Hellenic language?
Greek
Greece/Official languages
What is the relationship like between Greece and Turkey?
The relations between the Greek and the Turkish states have been marked by alternating periods of mutual hostility and reconciliation ever since Greece won its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1832.
What is the difference between Greek food and Turkish food?
There are so many more foods that I should have tried but simply didn’t had the time. The only general difference that I could find between Greek and Turkish cooking is that Turkish food is a little bit spicier. Despite that, my stomach never had any problem with that,
Are You a descendant of a Greek or Armenian in Turkey?
Being a descendant of a Greek, Armenian or other non-Turkish lineage in Turkey carried a stigma that could not be erased. The government has always had this information about its citizens and even created a secret “branding” or “race code” of citizens based on genealogy data they possessed.
Do Greeks and Turks know what papoutsakia and baklava are?
So both Greeks and Turkish know what Papoutsakia is and both Greeks and Turkish knowwhat baklava and Loukoumi is. Maybe they change the name a little bit from time to time but everything else remains the same. If you look up a little bit the history of those two countries you will realize that they had…and still have a lot of common things.