Linguistics Section

The head of the section Prometheus marked all posts that mention certain languages or their groups (families). You can look at them, or you can just dive into the fascinating world of linguistics in a row.

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Turkish

Worth a Thousand Words

At the early stages of learning Turkish, the beginner may well conclude that its vocabulary

Turkish

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You… For Six Thousand Years

This is precisely how we looked on returning from a week-long marathon through Gaziantep and

Arabic, Turkish

Urfa, Undiluted

Gaziantep holds the official title of Türkiye’s culinary capital, but in my own humble opinion

Turkish

Delete as Applicable

A people which oppresses another cannot emancipate itself. (F. Engels, A Polish Proclamation, 1874) There

Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Compliance à la Turque: The Linguistic Angle

I am sitting through a compliance training in Turkish and catch myself thinking that this

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