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| JacobTM Groupie United States Joined 5602 days ago 56 posts - 67 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 5 22 June 2011 at 6:05pm | IP Logged |
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Selam,
I'm beginning to learn Turkish. I feel that it's a good practice to learn all the cognates I can first, so that I have an easy way to learn a few hundred words from the get-go. I speak English and Spanish, and because of that recognize lots of French vocab, though I do not speak French. So are there any lists out there of Turkish cognates with English, French, or Spanish? I have to assume that many people use (modified) English words for things such as technology which aren't accepted by language authorities in Turkey, but since I plan to speak to young people, I'd like to know all these ''improper'' cognates as well. Words I know so far with English/French/Spanish cognates: Pardon Parti (political) Polis But there must be more than 3 words! Thanks a ton, Jacob 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5134 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 5 22 June 2011 at 6:23pm | IP Logged |
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I don't know of a list off hand, but just by reading the daily news, I run into cognates every day, whether it's an English, French or Italian cognate. I've probably run into more Italian cognates than French or English.
Doing a Google search for "<whatever language> Turkish cognates", you can find quite a few too. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Fazla Hexaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6266 days ago 166 posts - 255 votes Speaks: Italian, Serbo-Croatian*, English, Russian, Portuguese, French Studies: Arabic (classical), German, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 3 of 5 23 June 2011 at 1:36am | IP Logged |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_replaced_loanwords_in_T urkish
There's quite a big French section at the bottom. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7225 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 4 of 5 23 June 2011 at 5:48am | IP Logged |
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This is a funny coincidence, as I gave the same Wikipedia information to a Turkish woman learning French in Toronto.
Plus a Spanish woman learning Arabic and she was surprised how many Arabic loanwords are in Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5851 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 5 23 June 2011 at 6:30pm | IP Logged |
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Yes, there are lots of French and English words in the Turkish language, whereas I have never seen Spanish words.
I'll take my Turkish - English dictionary and give you some examples: abonman = abonnement adaptör = adaptor adres = address aerodinamik = aerodynamics afis = afiche akordeon = accordion akrobat = acrobat aksan = accent akort = accord aktif = active akupunktur = acupuncture akustik = acoustics aktör = acteur, actor This is only the beginning of the letter "A" in my dictionary, I could go on and find loads of such English and French cognates. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 23 June 2011 at 6:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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