105: Cultural blog 3

Turkish is an agglutinating language. Suffixes change the grammatical meaning of the word. In non agglutinating languages, word order indicates the lexical category of a word. An entire sentence can be conveyed with just one word in Turkish. Ex: Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmışsınız, meaning "You are said to be one of those that we couldn't manage to convert to a Czechoslovak." Turkish has no gender, but I’m not getting off easy here because guess what? Turkish has case endings like Latin. Wooo! Grammar is so important in Turkish I don’t think I will be able to go very far without a grammar handbook.

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