SDLC 110: Cultural Post 4

[Tenaya Bien]

The writing system in Turkish is in the Latin alphabet. This is part of the reason I chose Turkish in the first place. As my third language and the only one I didn't learn as a small child, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to learn a third language or that it would be significantly more difficult. By choosing a language that uses a Latin alphabet, I gave myself a better chance because I didn't have to learn a whole other writing system. What I didn't know was the modern Turkish also uses suffixes which means that it is a language that basically just uses building blocks to contract sentences and phrases. I also learned that Ottoman Turkish used to use the Arabic alphabet which would have been really really hard for me to learn in one semester.