Channel: Bahador Alast

Category: Education

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Description: Turkish and Azerbaijani are very similar with a high level of mutual intelligibility, but at the same time they are distinct languages. In terms of their differences, there exist many bilingual homophones (false friends), which are written or sound similar, but differ in meaning. In this video, we take a look at some of these and talk about how these false friends could create interesting and awkward situations when one is unaware of them. Aziz (Azerbaijani speaker) will read several such sentences, while Delal and Deniz (Turkish speakers) will listen and state what each one means to them in Turkish. Follow and message me on Instagram with your suggestions and if you would like to participate in a future video: instagram.com/BahadorAlast Azerbaijani (Azeri), which is also referred to as Azeri Turkish, is a member of the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages. The majority of Azeri speakers live in Northwestern Iran, followed by the Republic of Azerbaijan, where it has official status, along with the federal subject of Dagestan in Russia. The Turkish language, which is also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with most of its native speakers living in Western Asia, and significant group of speakers in Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Ottoman Turkish, which was a variation of the Turkish spoken today, influenced many parts of Europe during the time that the Ottoman Empire expanded. When the modern Turkish republic was established, one of Atatürk's Reforms consisted of changing the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with a Latin alphabet. Today, Turkish is recognized as a minority language in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Macedonia, and Romania.