The group of the Turkish languages belongs to the family of the altaïques Langues. They includes/understands about thirty languages distributed in a vast area going of the Europe of the east to the Siberia and the west of the China. It is estimated that 140 million people practices a Turkish language like native tongue, and several tens of additional million like second language.
See the list in this other article.
Characteristics
The features characteristic of the Turkish languages are the vocalic Harmonie, the agglutination by means of Suffixe S, and the absence of nominal classes or grammatical Genre. The order SOV is universal inside this family. All these distinctive characteristics are shared with the Mongolian Langues and the Langues toungouses, like with the Korean , the Japanese and the Aïnou, which are considered by certain linguists as genetically dependant with the Turkish languages within a total family that one proposed to name the family of the altaïques Langues.
Bonds
- Linguistic
- Dictionary of the languages
- People Turkish
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