Key characteristics of the Turkish language
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Turkic Language Family
Belongs to the Oghuz branch, close to Azerbaijani and Turkmen; more distantly related to the Turkic languages of Central Asia.
Latin Script
During language reform the script was changed from Arabic to Latin.
Agglutinative Structure
Complex words are formed by adding several suffixes to an unchanging stem.
Vowel Harmony
The form of suffixes agrees with the stem vowels in backness and rounding.
Language Reform
A major twentieth-century reform replaced many Arabic and Persian loanwords with Turkic ones.
SOV Word Order
The basic order is subject-object-verb, with modifiers preceding what they modify.
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