I'm wondering. What does the Turkish language sound like to foreigners?

[pinokyo]

Sound Like Russian

Like Finnish

Like Hungarian

Like Japanese

Like Arabic

Like French

Like Persian

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I look on the internet about this subject. The general opinion on:
-Non guttural
-Soft
-sound like generally Hungarian
some Swedish, some Finnish, some Korean and some Japanese.

[complicated_soul]

Kind of like Russian...
Their tone has a tiny hint of French.

I haven't heard how Finnish. Persian or Hungarian sound.

I like their voice.

What's the name of the show? Looks interesting.

[pinokyo]

This serie is "Kalbim Ege'de Kaldı". And Is the Turkish language as rough and harsh like Russian?

[complicated_soul]

Nope. It wasn't harsh at all.

[xHoneyxBeex]

It doesn't sound like any other languages to me, it just sounds foreign. It's such a different language from English so unlike Spanish or Italian, I don't understand it at all and can't pick out any words.

[pinokyo]

Really? can't you pick out any words? :(

[xHoneyxBeex]

Nope, I don't know anything about the Turkish language.

[BumbleDeev]

Im not very good at identifying languages/accents so if i didn't know it was Turkish i would of said it was Swedish or something. Haha im really bad at this.

[pinokyo]

Ahahaha :)

[ThisDudeHere]

Like a weird mix between some Balkan language and Arab.

[pinokyo]

You drool. Turkish originated in Altaic like Mongolian, Korean, Turkic, Japanese."Origin of the words in Turkish vocabulary, which contains 104,481 words, of which about 86% are Turkish and 14% are of foreign origin"
Turkish language
%84 Old Turkic origin
%6,4 Arabic origin
%4,9 French origin
%1,3 Persian origin
%0,6 Italian origin
%0,5 English origin
%0,4 Greek origin (Balkanic)
%0,23 Slavic origin (Balkanic)
%0,00015 Armenian (23 loanwords)

[ThisDudeHere]

I sincerely advise you against directly insulting other people here, mate. And second of all - you asked what the language sounded like. I responded that it sounded like a mix between some other Balkan language, like Serbian or Bulgarian or what not, and Arabic. You didn't fucking ask where do I think Turkic came from.

And I couldn't care less about it's origins.

[Deft_maiden]

I'm Persian, my mom speaks Azari dialect. It is a bit different I sounds to like Persain. But I was raised around it.

[pinokyo]

I think Azerbaijani dialect sound like guttural and Persian. There is no guttural sounds in Turkic languages (except Azerbaijani dialect kh kh kh )

[RationalLioness]

Like Russian. I feel so bad for some of the people there though.

[Jokjokjok]

There is nothing bad in Turkey. We are happy. Turkey is the world's fifth most visited country.

[RationalLioness]

I feel bad for the Armenians and hos your country refuses to acknowledge the genocide.

[Jokjokjok]

Because it is not a genocide.

[pinokyo]

You do not know shit. Turkey government says that:"Historians should create a commission. These historians should be in both directions (Armenian and Turkish). Politicians shouldn't deal with this issue. Historians should deal."Armenians government say:"No, no, no"
+Europeans killed thousands of people. European natives where now? Enslaved blacks? What happened to the people in the new continent? What happened to the people in Africa?

[RationalLioness]

Asker: Learn English fool. Germany committed the Holocaust and ADMITS what they did. The Turkish govt could do the same. I side with the Armenians.

And guess what? All those countries ADMIT what they did, not hide and say that politicians should deal.

If you dont think forcibly removing people from homes and killing them in the desert is genocide, lets hooe it doesn't happen to you.

So pathetic.

[pinokyo]

-My English is not so good. But I am not ashamed. I say directly.
-It is not a genocide. Politicians are not important in this matter. Because the politics is based on pragmatism. Academics and Historians should deal with the issue. Turkey has nothing to fear for genocide. Because we know we're right. Because we have opened our archives. But Armenians do not open. They're just propaganda.
-Read to Xocali Genocide. Azeri Turks were killed by Armenians. Read to ASALA Armenian terrorist organization.
-If you were you informed, you know you haven't the desert in Turkey.
+Myspace is Turkology and History in Istanbul University. Read some books.
I read from the source:
The events of 1915 were far more complex than what has been reported in the past and it is important that we recognize this was not as simple a scenario as the Armenian lobby would have us believe.

Despite the propaganda being pushed by a powerful and well-funded Armenian diaspora, the series of events in 1915 and beyond resulted in losses

[pinokyo]

+For nearly a century, the Armenian lobby has attempted to portray these actions as a willful, deliberate attempt to commit genocide of the Armenian people – a specific crime which is defined by international law. Nothing could be further from the truth and a detailed examination of the broader context of history paints a vastly different picture.

Furthermore, and as a result, international courts have never designated these tragic events as genocide. There is no legal consensus on the tragedy of 1915 because even though the Armenian lobby has been misrepresenting the facts for nearly a century, history – and the law – tells us otherwise. It’s time to cut through the propaganda and get the facts straight.

After numerous Armenian rebellions for the decades leading up to 1815 and Armenian massacres of tens of thousands of Turks, the government informed the high-level Armenian representatives that “Government will take the necessary precautions if Armenians continue to stab in the back

[pinokyo]

+and assassinate the Turks.” Unfortunately, this warning was ignored by the Armenian rebels, who increased their attacks upon defenseless Turkish women and children.

On April 24, 1915, the government closed the Armenian Committees and arrested – not killed or massacred – more than 2,300 Armenian leaders for carrying out these crimes against the government.

The celebration of April 24 as the day that the so-called “Armenian Genocide” began is but one of many efforts to propagandize and distort history by the Armenian diaspora.

[ElissaDido]

I voted Persian, but in reality, none, it just sounds Turkish to me

[pinokyo]

Can you identify?

[ElissaDido]

Yup, easily :)

[Anonymous]

Turkish language sounds like other Turkic languages (Uyghur, Tatar, Kazakh, Uzbek etc.)
Sometimes, sound like Finnish, Japanese and Hungarian.

[KidanisCortes]

sound slike turkey to me

[pinokyo]

Ahahaha. What is your real thoughts?

[KidanisCortes]

they sound like they are for turkey

[pinokyo]

That was funny...

[KidanisCortes]

I was being serious they sound like they are talking turkish

[pinokyo]

Gracias :)

[Anonymous]

Sounds somewhat similar to Persian.

[flowersfromkauai]

It sounds Russian to me with tones of Japanese.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like Finnish.