ENGR802:

Lesson 4: Globalization and the Impact on Communication & Knowledge Sharing

Language Lesson: Turkish

In this lesson we are studying Turkey and Turkish is the predominant language spoken in Turkey.

Please watch Video 4.5 (9:59 minutes) for a bit of history of the Turkish language and a short overview of the structure of the Turkish language.

The following is an overview of the percentages of people in Turkey that speak each of these languages as their “mother tongue” (adapted from Wikipedia, Languages of Turkey, data from Toplumsal et al., 2006):

• Turkish—84.54%
• Northern Kurdish—11.97%
• Arabic—1.38%
• Zazaki—1.01%
• Other Turkic languages—0.28%
• Balkan languages—0.23%
• Laz&mdassh;0.12%
• Armenian—0.07%

Table 4.1 provides the Turkish translation for each of the 10 words/short phrases. Be sure to study this table as you will have a short quiz at the end of this lesson. Click on the link in the table to hear the word pronounced.

If you would like to hear additional phrases pronounced, please go to this website and listen to the Basic Turkish Phrases.

Only the words in Table 4.1 below are on the language quiz. Listen to each word below and practice repeating it back, repeat the process several times for each word.