SDLC 105 Learning journal # 2

[Sydney Freeman]

Based on my research, the distinctive linguistic aspects of Turkish are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. Essentially, Turkish has a two dimensional vowel harmony system which means that vowels are characterized by two features: front and rounded. These two sets of vocal harmony systems are characterized by simple and complex. The simple vocal harmony is concerned with the low vowels e, a and has only the front feature while the complex one focuses on the high vowels and has both front and rounded features. The basic word order of the language is subject-object-verb and there are no noun classes or grammatical gender. Stress in letters tend to be on the last syllable. Since Turkish is an agglutinative language it uses affixes especially suffixes or endings often. Also, there are six noun cases in Turkish and all of these endings follow vowel harmony. Last but not least, the informal and formal language is again distinguished by a change in ending.