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    Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 09:48
Yesterday at work I tried listening to Turkish as an American and not as a Turk.  It was very hard since I've heard Turkish a lot more than English in my life.  I was surprised, I think I was able to listen to it as a non-Turk for a couple minutes and it kind of did sound like Korean.  I could be wrong though.
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Well, from my own limited experience, Turkish to me sounds like a combination between the french and Korean . With lots of sounds that requires an open mouth deep penerated voice like U, , ,O It is sounds like french in that sense. Tke Konuabiliar Musunuz? Notice how many deep u sounds we needed. And sounds Korean as discussed earlier in in "CH" of  and  "G" in C.

The problem is that I hear so much turkish that I am unable to imitate the impression i would get if i was a first-time-listener to turkish. Beautiful langauge but not when they start fighting

Now, someone correct me on this, but i got the impression Anatolian Turkish changes the structure of the turkish sentance to give it a rythm as the persian language, therefore uses a lot of persian grammatical structure, true?



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 10:33

It sounds unique and beautiful. I Love it. I like anatolian the most. Haven't heard the others besides Azeri (which I hear almost everyday at home   ).

 

 
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well cyrus i agree with you about that anatolian Turkish, if you wanna hear anatolian Turkish in a music just listen to Volkan konak: cerrah pasa

it is amazing song in anatolian Turkish.
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To me, when I don't focus on words but on sounds it sounds like Korean or Japanese (!) and sometimes it has even sounded as native American (!!!) - not sure which dialect

It's such an interesting coincidence that Prof. Oktay Sinanoglu - who was the youngest profeesor of all time in 1962 when he earned the degree at the age of 26, nominated twice for Nobel prize, a Turkish language frontman - claimed that Japanese and Turks had very close cultural qualities, in linguistics as well.

It's also clear that Native Americans were sons of immigrants from Central Asia. Those immigrants lived long before the first time Turkic tribes appeared.

 

So you make an interesting point here Yannis
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Almost 400 words out of a total 30000 words were found as common among Ural- Altaic languages and the language spoken among American Indians.
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I dont know how turkish sounds like to the others but hungarian really sounds like turkish to me!
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I like Turkish songs,especially Ibrahim Tatlises.
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Then try the following link. There are many Turkish songs there. Cilick "mzik dinle" on the red line and find brahim Tatlses under the letter "i"

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 09:20

hai all....

turkish?? well the same thing i wnt to say here as greek language...

it sounds complicated.. even the writing can turn people to headache.. especially people from SE Asia... sure a malay will have a hard time to learn it.. hahaha.

well .. cok gec had let me listen to a turkish song... music more to arabic melody...the lyric... err... i could hear the singer say 'yorum' so many times... can anyone let me know wht's that???!!

ciao...
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 -yorum is the first person singular form in the present continuous tense.

Yap = do      yapyorum = I'm doing

Sev = love    seviyorum = I'm loving (or I love)

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Originally posted by kotumeyil

Then try the following link. There are many Turkish songs there. Cilick "m?ik dinle" on the red line and find ?rahim Tatl?es under the letter "i"

http://www.muzikdinle.info

Hi Kotumeyil,

I usually download songs on morpheus which is a p2p software.Its bit of a headache bcoz i don't have a personal computer n have to download the songs each time i visit a cyber cafe.

Anyway,I'd like to get the full lyrics for katula katula by davout guloglu n the meaning in english.My turkish friend Ramazan has limited knowledge of english n could just tell me that katula katula means that I laugh n laugh n that the song is about a man who used to be very masculine but after marriage he follows all that his wife told him.Do u know the tune of this song is lifted from an Indian song.
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Yeah it's lifted from an Indian song. That song is a synthesis of Indian and Laz music but its lyrics are absurd. I don't know the lyrics but "lyrics" means "szler" in Turkish. Search "katula katula szler" in google and I think you can find them...
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the second letter is "o" with 2 dots above
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I heard Armenian for the first time today and was surprised that the pitch of the language is very similar to Turkish.
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Originally posted by JiNanRen

I heard Armenian for the first time today and was surprised that the pitch of the language is very similar to Turkish.

http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5107& ;PN=3

 
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my foreign friends usually says that we speak like british.but in east it is changing to german
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-Oct-2005 at 22:28
Originally posted by Zagros

Originally posted by JiNanRen

I heard Armenian for the first time today and was surprised that the pitch of the language is very similar to Turkish.

http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5107& ; ;PN=3

 



When I heard turkish for the first time (couple of years ago) I was surprised how similar it sounds to Armenian. There are whole bunch of sounds that Armenian lacks, such as all this o's and u's with umlauts, but the pitch of other vowels, the tone of the speech, the tempo are very similar. Also all these throaty gh's, kh's, etc. 

The people I've heard were from Istanbul, so perhaps the other turkish dialects sound different, I am no expert.

Mind you, I've heard uzbeks and turkmens conversing before and they did sound different, I didn't make a connection then.


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Turkish does NOT have throaty voices...at least western turkish dialect doesnt.

What you heard was probably a dialect in eastern anatolia or maybe not turkish at all t1mm...
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