Final version of dlang-fr released

Mengu mengukagan at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 06:52:15 PST 2014


On Friday, 7 March 2014 at 11:35:42 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
> 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 :)

you got that wrong :) this is a list of languages that turkish 
language borrowed from. it is not a list of foreign words in the 
listed languages.

however, it doesn't seem accurate to me as well.


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