Originally Posted by
Wadaad
To my ears it sounds Persianate, but with alot of semitic glottal stops and rough KH sounds from Arabic that Persian lacks.
But overall, it sounds Indo-European indeed, especially contrasted next to the very ALIEN language of Turkish, which is easily much stranger to the common ear. More melodious than Kurdish ofcourse, but sounding strange to the MENA region and to the Balkans. I keep hearing “jackson…chukujulorum bla bla” I don’t know why I keep hearing the word jackson in Turkish all the time, “darajackson”, “karajackson”, I kept hearing this all the time.
Another one is constant repeating of the sound “U” with the dots on top and the “I’ without the dot. The whole language is full of those sounds. It feels like everything ends in “u”, there are no hard consonants at the end of the words. The Rs are very very soft for an English speaker, really hard to pronounce.
Another repeating word is “sonra”, constantly sonra sonra sonra. If I had to summarize Turkish, it would be language of “darajackson+oyurum+sonra”, these are the sounds constantly repeating in the language.
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