Turkish (language)

alphabet
- https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-Turkish-language-use-the-Latin-alphabet-instead-of-Arabic-alphabet-1

gender
- Turkish has no gender.https://www.quora.com/What-languages-do-not-have-gender-in-their-grammar

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-bana-and-not-bene-in-Turkish

Çikolata - chocolate

Lokum - Turkish delight

color terms in Turkish are those that were inspired by an object, animal, or food. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-interesting-words-for-colors-in-different-languages

idiom
- “Başkasının siki ile gerdeğe girmek.” - Literal translation is: To go into your wedding night with somebody else’s dick. It means when you rely on somebody else’s resources/ability/rank etc to do/claim something for yourself.

dialect

- https://www.quora.com/How-different-are-Turkmen-and-Turkish-phonology


loanwords
-  https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-total-percentage-of-loanwords-in-Turkish/answer/Baris-Ates-1
-  https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-Venetian-and-Italian-language-loanwords-in-Turkish-language

similar words with japanese
- https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-say-the-Turkish-language-is-similar-to-the-Japanese-language

comparison with other languages
- only up to 15% of Turkish vocabulary comes from Arabic. Ottoman Turkish was closer to Arabic than modern Turkish. If you knew Persian, French, and Arabic then you might have up to 25%.https://www.quora.com/How-easy-was-it-to-learn-Turkish-when-you-already-know-Arabic-and-English-as-a-mother-tongue

language heritage preservation
- The Turkish Language Institution (Turkish: Türk Dil Kurumu, TDK) is the official regulatory body of the Turkish language, founded on July 12, 1932 by the initiative of Atatürk and headquartered in Ankara, Turkey. The Institution acts as the official authority on the language (without any enforcement power), contributes to linguistic research on Turkish and other Turkic languages, and is charged with publishing the official dictionary of the language, Güncel Türkçe Sözlük.