Yuki
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Post by Yuki on Feb 9, 2016 19:28:46 GMT
If anyone was wondering about the differences (and similarities) between Persian and Modern Standard Arabic, here's a video I saw earlier which gives a pretty good answer:
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 2, 2016 0:12:22 GMT
Thanks...That helped flesh out some basics I already knew and broadened my understanding of both languages.
I'm curious as to how yet another major linguistic grouping, Turkic, affects the linguisitic inter-relationships of western Asia.
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Post by Yuki on Mar 8, 2016 16:24:01 GMT
I think many Arabic dialects in the Middle East have Turkish loanwords which date back the period of Ottoman domination, and Turkish also has many Arabic loanwords. Turkish was also written in Arabic alphabet, until Attaturk started the process of secularization of Turkey, and replaced it with Latin alphabet.
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Post by Yuki on Mar 14, 2016 17:07:31 GMT
But for a more accurate response, Paul comes again to the rescue (this video was posted just yesterday):
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 15, 2016 0:44:07 GMT
Thanks, Yuki.
I am probably more familiar than most Americans with Turkic languages (though I can't speak a word), having hosted a Kyrgyz student and having toured parts of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and passed through Kazahkstan. My guest told me that although all are Turkic languages, and Tadjik (a form of Farsi) is widespread, most refuse to accept that the languages are mutually intelligible and speak Russian as a common trans-national, trans-ethnic language. I did manage to get from my guest's atrocious English that he understood a fair amount of the Turkish conversations going on around him during his layover in Istanbul.
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