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10 Language-to-English Dictionarieslangues turques
Pronunciation / Transliteration: /lɑ̃ɡ tyrk/
"Le turc est l'une des langues turques les plus parlées."
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A language family of around 40 documented languages, spoken by some 180-200 million people, predominantly spread across Eurasia from Eastern Europe to Siberia and western China.
"Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Uzbek are among the most widely spoken members of the Turkic languages family." - 2
The linguistic branch characterized by extensive agglutination and vowel harmony.
"Linguists often study the Turkic languages for their complex systems of vowel harmony and suffixation."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the ethnonym 'Turk' (ultimately from Old Turkic *Türük, possibly meaning ' güçlü, mature' or 'created') combined with the suffix -ic, referring to the language family. The term was formalized in comparative linguistics during the 19th century to classify a major language family spanning across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Siberia.
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langues turques
Transliteration: /lɑ̃ɡ tyrk/
"Le turc est l'une des langues turques les plus parlées."
Turksprachen
Transliteration: /ˈtʊʁkˌʃpʁaːxn̩/
"Die Turksprachen bilden eine große Sprachfamilie in Eurasien."
lingue turciche
Transliteration: /ˈlinɡwe turˈtʃike/
"Il kazako appartiene al gruppo delle lingue turciche."
lenguas túrcicas
Transliteration: /ˈleŋɡwas ˈtuɾsikas/
"Las lenguas túrcicas se hablan desde Europa Oriental hasta Siberia."
línguas túrcicas
Transliteration: /ˈlĩɡwɐs ˈtuɾsikɐs/
"O uzbeque é uma das principais línguas túrcicas."
तुर्क भाषा परिवार
Transliteration: turk bhasha parivar
"तुर्क भाषा परिवार में कई भाषाएँ शामिल हैं।"
突厥语族
Transliteration: tūjué yǔzú
"土耳其语是突厥语族中 and 使用人数最多的语言。"
돌궐어족
Transliteration: dol-gwol-eo-jok
"튀르키예어는 돌궐어족에 속합니다."
テュルク諸語
Transliteration: tyuruku shogo
"テュルク諸語には中央アジアの多くの言語が含まれる。"
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