Final version of dlang-fr released

simendsjo simendsjo at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 03:36:33 PST 2014


On 03/06/2014 10:44 PM, Meta wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 March 2014 at 21:40:30 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> Yes.
>>
>> Let me Google for myself... :) I've just found the following forum
>> post, listing the number of foreign words in Turkish. I don't know how
>> scientific it is.
>>
>>
>> http://www.dilforum.com/forum/showthread.php/69676-T%C3%9CRK%C3%87EDE-%C3%96Z-ve-YABANCI-KEL%C4%B0ME-SAYISI?s=4f46575e8a1d4c666908139906fa786e
>>
>>
>> Arabic 6467
>> French 5253
>> Persian 1359
>> English 485
>> Greek (actually Rum, more like Koine Greek I guess) 400
>> German 98
>> Italian 89
>> Latin 78
>> Greek 48
>> Russian 44
>> Spanish 33
>> Armenian 24
>> Slavic 24
>> Sogdian 24
>> Bulgarian 19
>> Japanese 9
>> Hungarian 9
>> Korean 1
>> Hebrew 7
>> Mongolian 4
>> Portuguese 3
>> Norwegian 2
>> Finnish 2
>> Albanian 1
>>
>> Ali
>
> Wow, second only to Arabic. Do you know why that is? It's not something
> that I would expect at all. Even stranger is the fact that there are so
> few loanwords from the Eastern European countries that actually border
> Turkey.

Doesn't look very scientific at all. We have a lot more than 2 foreign 
words in Norway :)


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