Similarities Between Turkish and Turkmen
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Published 2022-07-24
In this video Mihriban, Mayra, and Ekin will demonstrate to what extent Turkish speakers can understand the Turkmen language.
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The Turkish language, which is also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with most of its native speakers living in Western Asia, and significant group of speakers in Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Ottoman Turkish, which was a variation of the Turkish spoken today, influenced many parts of Europe during the time that the Ottoman Empire expanded. When the modern Turkish republic was established, one of Atatürk's Reforms consisted of changing the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with a Latin alphabet. Today, Turkish is recognized as a minority language in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Macedonia, and Romania.
The Turkmen language (türkmen dili) is a member of the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages and it is spoken by the Turkmens of Central Asia, primarily in Turkmenistan where it has official status, and also in Iran and Afghanistan which both have a significant Turkmen community.
The Turkic languages consist of over 35 different documented languages, originating from East Asia. Turkish has the highest number of native speakers out of all Turkic language. There is a high degree of mutual intelligibility among the various Oghuz languages, which include Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Qashqai, Gagauz, Balkan Gagauz Turkish and Oghuz-influenced Crimean Tatar.
All Comments (21)
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Please keep in mind that the participants in these videos do not see the text that appears on the screen, so for them it's more challenging than the viewers. In addition to that, we decided to have these Turkmen proverbs that I think are very meaningful and interesting but of course, unlike ordinary simple sentences they can be a bit more difficult to translate. Hope you guys enjoy it!! Contact me on Instagram if you'd like to participate in a future video: www.instagram.com/BahadorAlast
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I had such a fun trip to Turkey recently!! Lovely people, amazing food, great culture, wonderful nightlife! Greetings from Serbia 🇷🇸
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if you cried with sincerity, tears would come out of even a blind eye. İhlas ile ağlasan, kör gözden yaş gelir.
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I love how at first when they heard it was difficult but as they went forward they managed to understand so much more and did a fantastic job overall. That's really cool and shows how smart they are. Well done!!
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I love this. Just starting to get into Turkish, so loving your videos on these related languages! You always find the best participants! Thanks for posting!
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Not only are you bringing people together and making educational and fun videos for us to enjoy but I just realized those who participate in the video are so excited so you're also making them happy too
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Wow Turkmen isn't only a beautiful language but also full of meaningfulness. As an Azerbaijani speaker I could understand everything and watching Mayra and Ekin trying to guess was so much fun 😂
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Love these participants! Hope you feature them in future Turkish/Turkmen videos.
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Very interesting and meaningful. As a Ukrainian born and raised in Crimea in Southern Ukraine, I would like to see Crimean Tatar in your videos.
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Very nice. That's really great. Thank you Bahadır 👍🏼🍻
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I absolutely love the energy and motivation of the participants 😍 to which I could somehow totally relate to hehe 😜 was so much fun watching this and also guessing the proverbs, thanks to you four! And indeed I'd be totally up for watching another episode of this - the great thing about proverbs is also that they tell a story and more about the culture 😁 Turkic cultures used to measure things with their hands for example, that's why that is used in all those idioms and sayings.
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As an Azerbaijani I can understand many of written Turkmen words but it is difficult to catch them by ear.
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Bence derin atasözleri yerine daha az mecaz olan ifadeleri anlamak hiç sorun olmazdı ve içerik böyle olmalıydı. Bu atasözleri ile bile anlaşabiliyorsak Türkçe ve Türkmence hiç uzak değil birbirlerine. Üstelik Türk atasözleri bin bir anlam taşıyabilir yani Türkiye de herhangi bir atasözünü birine sorsan tam cevabı veremeyebilir.
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I was waiting for a Turkmen & Turkish video. Please do more!
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Watching this video just after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Türkiye and Syria. 22000 lives lost, properties damaged. My heart goes out to the people of those countries. Lovely people, lovely language. 🇹🇷💓 Take love from India (🇮🇳)
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The first time I heard Turkmen was a video on Youtube of a news report from Turkmen television. I just watched a minute or two and said, "Nope. I can't get this. It's too different". But watching a video like this, you can see that, for a Turkish speaker, it's not a matter of learning a new language so much as a matter of adjusting your ears (and imagination) a little. I feel like spending just a week or two in Ashgabad would probably be enough to "get" most Turkmen.
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I understood everything Turkmen lady said and I'm from Uzbekistan, even proverbs are the same, I never noticed we are that similar since as an Uzbek man, I'm not that much exposed to their culture and language. I recently found your channel and love your videos keep it up man
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So cool, and I just love your guests!
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It was a nice video .I am from Turkmenistan too 🇹🇲 .Please make such video a lot
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I really appreciate you making this! As Turks who have lived in the West for so long but stillxconnected strongly with the language we always crave to watch these beautiful programs which are teaching us a lot. I want to congratulate Mayra and Ekin for the fine job they did because we know for sure that Turkmen pronunciation can be very differn and since you're not seeing the writing that throws a rench in it. Thank you again!
