The characteristic features are the pattern regularity (if the first vowel of a Turkish word is a front vowel, the second and other vowels of the same word are usually the same vowel or another front vowel; e.g. Erdem), the abundance of suffixes (and very few prefixes) and opposite order of the words (as compared to English and other European languages). |
The characteristic features are the pattern regularity (if the first vowel of a Turkish word is a front vowel, the second and other vowels of the same word are usually the same vowel or another front vowel; e.g. Erdem), the abundance of suffixes (and very few prefixes) and opposite order of the words (as compared to English and other European languages). Turkish is, like the Finnish language and the Japanese language, an agglutinating language. |