Huge comparison of similar Turkish and Mongolian vocabulary
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Flag of Kalmykia.
I've been looking for something like this for a while now. I can't seem to get the encoding just right for umlauted characters on the page but besides that it's a really good find. The next thing to do I guess would be to compare them with other Turkic languages like Kazakh to see if there are even more similarities that can be found.
Here are two examples:
Turkish demir (iron) - Mongolian tömör. In Kazakh it's temir.The list might be a good reference for worldlangers or auxlangers that want to have a bit more Altaic vocabulary. Don't forget that Mongolian is actually spoken not just in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia in China, but also in Kalmykia as Kalmyk.
Turkish yön (direction) - Mongolian züg (or chig), Kazakh jak.
1 comments:
Interesting. You have seen this page I suppose? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_language#Controversy
Have you looked at all at the Etymological Dictionary of Altaic languages they talk about? I'd be interested in knowing what you think.
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