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To add, knowledge of Turkish will also make it easier to converse in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and a bunch of other countries in the region.
by geoka9 2y ago
To add, knowledge of Turkish will also make it easier to converse in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and a bunch of other countries in the region.
- davidzweig 2y agoAlso many Iranians speak 'Turk' and understand Turkish from watching Turkish telenovelas on satellite TV.
- geoka9 2y agoGood point! Although, what they call 'Turk' is actually Azeri :) (Part of the historical Azerbaijan is in Iran.)
- rich_sasha 2y agoHow very interesting, I understand Turkish and Farsi are totally unrelated (Turkic and Indo-European language families).
- rvense 2y agoMore than half of the Iranian population belong to an ethnic minority, and the biggest by far is the Turkish speaking one, the Azeri - it's something like 1/3 of the population as far as I remember. I don't know if non-Azeri learn Turkish from TV, but for a lot of Iranians it's simply their first language.
- fakedang 2y agoTo add to that, I learnt to basic-speak the now extinct language of Chagatai, because I know Turkish. Turkish is also mutually intelligible with Uzbek and Kazakh - it's basically like English and Dutch. Edit:- Learning Chagatai practically let's you speak Kazakh and Uzbek partway. Tried it in both countries, might work in other places like Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan too. :)