Relations between Turkish and Swedish?

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Ã‡etin

you are right ,it was Swedish and i recommend this pdf file (page 6-9) .
http://www.trf.nu/yeni_birlik/birlik_1_2007.pdf
There is an issue about your question and the book of Sven Lagerbring (swedish historian)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Lagerbring.png

Ipek K

I think it was Finnish.

Here is a section from an article about this issue. It is believed that both Finnish and Turkish come from Uralic languages :

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"Most Finno-Ugrists would answer: we don't know, at least nothing has been proved yet. Some linguists have proposed a relationship between the Finno-Ugrian and Indo-European language families, but it seems more probable that the Indo-Europeans are simply our old neighbours: the FU languages have some really ancient IE loanwords.

Some other hypotheses have also been proposed (Uralo-Altaic, Uralo-Dravidian, Finno-Basque, Hungaro-Sumerian etc. etc.); as a rule, these are either based on antiquated ideas or created by (lay) people with no expertise on one (or both) of the language groups in question. The Ural-Altaic hypothesis still survives in some parts of the world as a common belief that "Finnish and Turkish are related". However, as pointed out earlier, the structural similarities between Finnish (or other Finno-Ugrian languages) and Turkish (or other Turkic or "Altaic" languages) are of a typological character: these languages belong to the same type. The basic vocabulary in these languages is quite different and does not allow for the reconstruction of a common proto-language. Besides, the existence of the "Altaic" language family (Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic languages, perhaps also Korean) is also doubted by many scholars.

(Although not genetically related, Turkish does have some connections with the Finno-Ugrian languages. Some FU languages spoken in Central Russia and Western Siberia have been influenced by the neighbouring Turkic languages, and Hungarian has many layers of loanwords adopted from different Turkic-speaking tribes.)"

This is the source. Please check it out :

http://www.helsinki.fi/~jolaakso/fufaq.html

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It must be Finnish which is another Ural-Altaic language. It actually belongs to the Uralic branch unlike Turkish. I don't remember the news though.

Momo

As some people well stated above, I suppose there is a kind of connection between Finnish and Turkish...Even though this "link" seems to be quite bizarre nowadays, due to the huge cultural differences existing between Finland and Turkey.

By the way, does anybody know why there is an important finnish city whose name is ...TURKU ?...

Earthling

It should be Finnish. It's an agglutinative language like Turkish.

berk

finnish...not swedish...

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Yes, I've heard that it was probably Finnish...
And I suppose the friends above gave some accurate info...

Anyway, even though Finnish language has apparently an Ural-Altaic origin, I don't really consider this language as a "brother-language"... Turkish language is definitely extremely different than Finnish language, despite of the fact of both having an agglutinative sentence construction system.

Some say that Magyar also has a lot of turkish words which were assmilated and transformed, but anyway we cannot understand the Hungarians when they're talking.

We exchanged zillions of words with Arabs,Persians, and probably Greeks and Armenians too, but anway we still need interprets in order to communicate, because our languages don't have the same roots at all...

We don't see any similiarity between our language and the Native American Indian languages, but the scientists and anthropologists have apparently proved that these tribes have some common words with many Turkic languages...And anyway that's not really surprising since we know that they came from Asia via the Bering Detroit...I guess probably from the Altay region as well...So maybe the Aztecs are also our cousins...That's quite fascinating, isn't it?...

Regarding Swedish language, I don't think there is something related to us...But I admit having being a little amazed when I noticed that in these Nordic countries they usually write the name " Axel" with the turkish ortograph " Aksel", instead of using the other european ortograph...Probably just a phonetic coincidence...

Leprechaun

Yeah as people above mentioned it must be Finnish.Swedish sounds more like a Germanic language.

But from my point of view, i'd prefer Swedish girls :D

DanyBoy

i am fluent in swedesh and turkish and i cant see the resemblens

sultan.murat

Finnish stems from Turkish. Turkish is one of the main languages of the World. Also Hungarian stems from Turkish and the name Hungary has to do with the Huns that decided to take a long trip out to the West in those years.
Finnland was never inhabited heavily. The locals in Lappland (North) still speak a different language today than the rest of Finnland. Southern Finnland was a settlement for the wandering Turkish clans.

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