Turkish bird language Puns

This sounds far-fetched but it somehow feels just as far-fetched that they aren't related at all. Looking around for this on the internet I'm also seeing that Turkish and Hindi share ancestor languages in common. I actually don't know the word for "Hindi" in Hindi, so I'm not sure whether this is a question about Turkish, or Hindi, or English...

As a (non-fluent, but functional) speaker of both Danish and Spanish, I always thought it was funny that “niveau” and “nivel” were such similar words for “level”, and figured they must have a common ancestor in there somewhere. I looked it up once, found out about Latin “libella” → Old French “nivel” → French “niveau” → Danish “niveau”, and assumed the story ended there. What I didn’t discover until yesterday is that apparently “niveau” exists, with minor spelling variations, in

• Dutch (“niveau”)
• German (“niveau”)
• Swedish (“nivå”)
• Norwegian (“nivå”)
• Serbo-Croatian (“nivo”)
• & Turkish (“nivo”)

and according to Wiktionary, at least, all of these are due to French influence specifically. How? Why?

I fully know Turkish and English.

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In 2020 I lost my job because of Covid. I have lived in Germany for years but my German had for a long time stagnated at the B2ish level where I could do most things I needed to do to get by, but I still felt very far away from, for example, being able to do job interviews and work in German (which, thanks to my unemployment, was now an urgent matter).

I started using the extra, unemployed time to improve my German, getting my B2 certificate towards the end of 2020. I generally read books, watched shows, made (paper) flash cards and generally tried to immerse. I was also seeing a German girl for a good chunk of that year, which definitely helped.

As 2021 rolled around, I decided to continue with the German, while making it my new year's resolution to learn a new language: Italian. My father's side of the family is Italian and my grandmother lives in Rome, so I had been plenty of times, but had shamefully never learnt the language, even though my native language is Spanish.

I also (perhaps stupidly) decided to pick up Russian. I was still unemployed so it made sense I guess, although that soon came to an end as I got a full time job in February. It's worth mentioning I am not a beginner in that language: I studied Russian at university for 4 years, of which I lived one year in Russia. Nevertheless, although I got my degree with good marks and could reasonably hold a conversation, I felt when I finished university that I was still so far away from just being able to read a book in Russian, watch a show without subtitles, etc. I studied it in the old-fashioned formal way: lots of focus on grammar, not enough input. The sheer insane complexity of the grammar also led me to the belief that I would never be able to learn the language without attending courses, focusing lots on grammar, etc. I moved to Germany after university and basically didn't use Russian for a decade. I went to Kiev in 2019, tried to speak and was horrified to realise I'd even forgotten how to say the days of the week! One day in December 2020, out of boredom, I decided to listen to the Comprehensible Russian Podcast with Max to see if I remembered anything of the language. It turns out I could more or less follow what he was saying! So maybe there was some hope...

It is around this time that I also heard about LingQ and Anki, and decided to start applying these apps to my language learning. I used LingQ especially intensively for Russian.

My German was already pretty well developed and

Hi. I am a Turk living in Turkey and I have a question for those who learn/try to learn Turkish. How difficult a language is Turkish? How is it to learn according to most world languages?

Any advice? Idk wtf is going on lol

We got "Dadash" in Persian, but I don't think it's native, since Baradar is the native and ancient word for Brother. So has this word imported from Turk language?

Most people think that modern Turkish is a descendant of what is called "Ottoman Turkish". Ottoman Turkish was only used by elites and educated people. Ordinary people or better said ethnic Turks used what the government called "Kaba Türkçe", meaning smth like "Rough/Rude Turkish", it had much less loanwords and is the language which modern Turkish is based on. The language reforms mainly changed the Script, nothing more. "Only" a couple of hundreds of words were removed (which wouldn't really change the language), but many of those words which used to be removed are still used in Modern Turkish.

Here's an audio from 1909 (before the language reforms): https://youtu.be/xIRUC8p0t7M

If you know Turkish, you can understand almost everything, only some words aren't understood anymore.

Here's the list of the words which were removed or used to be removed, but many of them are still used:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replacement_of_loanwords_in_Turkish

So, Anatolian Turks speak just a modernized and standardized Turkish, not a new language or somehting. If there really would be a big change, Gagauz people and Syrian Turkmens wouldn't be able to communicate with us, cuz they would speak that unchanged Turkish since they weren't affected by the language reforms.

My latest post which was about Şener Levent's writing on a father mourning his daughter who passed away from a car accident 5 years ago, my post was in Turkish. And many people downvoted and two even told me to write in Greek and English because"this is not r/Turkey". under such a post how ignorat would you have to be to write something like that? One of those comments even got an award until they were removed. My post was non-political and i saw many downvotes to my post. As i have seen this type of treatment to posts in Turkish many times before. If you wanted translation i would have provided it. But if this language is so offensive for you then you are free to tell us so we can make our own subreddit to use our language freely. as i thought Turkish was one of the two official languages of the Republic of Cyprus. It seems it is not one of the languages of this subreddit.

The Americans called it Turkey because they believed that it came from Turkey.

Hi, I have learned turkish (through my gf) and I would like to know if it's popular foreign language learned in Kazakhstan (beside english).

Thx.

26F, interests include literature, coding, travel, and science. Mostly friendly and occasionally funny.

I'd prefer if we can voice chat regularly!

I am especially curious about the opinion of those who learn as a third language.