Which Language is Most Similar to Turkish? Not Azerbaijani!

“Which language is most similar to Turkish?” If we ask, probably everyone will think of Azerbaijani Turkish comes but we are wrong!

There is another language that is much more similar to Turkey Turkish. Room Gagauz Turkish or otherwise known as Gagauz.

Gagauz Turkish and Türkiye Turkish are so similar that they can almost be called the same.

Both Gagauz Turkish and Türkiye Turkish, many in terms of grammatical structure and vocabulary same. This similarity is so much that you can understand Gagauz Turkish as long as you know Turkey Turkish.

But thanks to people living in countries such as Gagauz Turkish, Ukraine and Moldova, Russian and Bulgarian It was also influenced by other languages ​​such as Turkish and it differentiated from Türkiye Turkish.

Almost all of the basic words, verbs, pronouns and conjunctions are common.

“Mother, apple, water, food, flower, today, house, brother, one, morning, table, sister…” There are so many we can’t finish counting. base wordcommon to both languages.

And also “I, you, he, we, you, they, this, that, that” pronouns like and “but, like, until, for, with, and…” Prepositions such as are also the same. As you can guess; “eat, drink, go, come” like verbs are also common.

What is the difference between the two languages ​​then?

What we call “phonetics/pronunciation” intonation with pronunciation and stress differences are clearly visible. Additionally, words used with the same meaning may differ. For example, what we call “brothers” are also “brothers”.

Those who use Gagauz Turkish have blended words from the languages ​​of other geographies with their own language, under the influence of the places they live. To give an example “çaynik” instead of “çay” they say. Even though they use the Latin alphabet, some letters may vary.

Finally, let’s leave a comparison example:

Türkiye Turkish: “Hi, how are you?”

Gagauz Turkish: “Hello, what’s up?”

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