What is the percentage of Arabic loanwords in Turkish language? And how many words are there totally in Turkish?
According to the TDK (Turk Dili Kurumu/Turkish Language Association) almost 7% of the Turkish vocabulary is originally Arabic. However, being an Arab specialized in the Turkish language, I strongly doubt this percentage.The fact that the TDK did their best trying to find Turkish alternatives for the originally Arabic or other foreign words, doesn't reduce the percentage this way. Since those words of Arabic origins are still used side by side with those newly replaced Turkish ones.It also differs from a generation to another, as you can find older generations using more Arabic origin words than the new generations, who tend a little bit more to use words imported from European languages. The picture attached is from the Güncel Türkçe Sözlük, the official dictionary of the Turkish language published by TDK. As a learner and teacher of the Turkish language, I do believe it has imported way much more foreign words than the official numbers say. The ideological aspect plays an important role in this issue. The old generations being closer to the Old Ottoman language (which was mainly using Arabic and Persian words) are more frequent in using Arabic vocabulary than the new generations who are more subject to the newly replaced Turkish words, and to the western imported ones as well.One of the main roles of TDK is filtering the Turkish language from foreign words, back during the Ataturk's rule, it was directly related to the ideology the state adopted back then. Turning the letters into Latin rather than Arabic letters (Ottoman Turkish was written in Arabic letters), and trying to find alternatives for mainly Arabic and other foreign words was their main goal. Nowadays, they are still doing their best in filtration, however from western words now. A funny example of this is a post that was posted about two years ago on the TDK official page, announcing finding a Turkish alternative for the new foreign word "selfie", and choosing it to be "özçekim''. The Nationalism and Ataturk-ism controlling on the policy of the TDK, is what makes them keep fighting to preserve or in other words revive the Turkish vocabulary in favor of other foreign vocabulary. However, the evolution of language, and the continuous exchange of vocabulary among languages is inevitable.
Has the word 'terrorist' lost it's meaning?
"YOU CRAZY LIBRUL! HOW DARE YOU QUESTION OUR COUNTRY'S RAIGHT TUH CALL YEW A TURRURYST!!" yup. would agree. I'm also tired of being called a liberal when i disagree...especially when I'm not. And shortly after being called a commie, I'm told to move to another country. I'm seriously thinking about it. I don't wanna be on the recieving end when we piss enough of the world off and every nukes US!
I need world war 1 information by November 2 2007?
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War and the War To End All Wars, was a global military conflict which took place primarily in Europe from 1914 to 1918. Over 40 million casualties resulted, including approximately 20 million military and civilian deaths. The conflict had a decisive impact on the history of the 20th century. The Entente Powers, led by France, Russia, the United Kingdom and its colonies and dominions, and later Italy (from 1915) and the United States (from 1917), defeated the Central Powers, led by the Austro-Hungarian, German, and Ottoman Empires. Russia withdrew from the war after the revolution in 1917. The fighting that took place along the Western Front occurred along a system of trenches, breastworks, and fortifications separated by an area known as no man's land.[2] These fortifications stretched 475 miles (more than 600 kilometres)[2] and defined the war for many. On the Eastern Front, the vast eastern plains and limited rail network prevented a trench warfare stalemate, though the scale of the conflict was just as large as on the Western Front. The Middle Eastern Front and the Italian Front also saw heavy fighting, while hostilities also occurred at sea, and for the first time, in the air. The war caused the disintegration of four empires: the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman and Russian. Germany lost its colonial empire and states such as Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Yugoslavia gained independence. The cost of waging the war set the stage for the breakup of the British Empire as well and left France devastated for more than a generation. World War I marked the end of the world order which had existed after the Napoleonic Wars, and was an important factor in the outbreak of World War II.