Turkish: How to say hello and goodbye?

In Turkish Merhaba means "Hello", güle güle or Allahaismarladik means "Goodbye".

When expressing "goodbye", the two expressions use different objects. güle güle is said by the farewell party, and Allahaismarladik is said by the farewell party.

A notable feature of Turkish is its vowel harmony and a large number of affix changes in agglutinative languages.

Turkish words use SOV word order.

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The most significant feature of Turkish is the harmony of vowels, which has both palatal and labial variants.

The harmony of palatalization is based on the distinction between front vowels (e, i, ?, ü) and back vowels (a, ?, o, u). There are many sets of classification standards for vowels, such as: a e ? i is a non-rounded sound, o ? u ü is a rounded sound; ? i u ü is called a narrow sound, and a e o ? is called a wide sound.

Usually all the vowels of a word must belong to the same category (front or back), and the vowels of the suffix also change according to the category of the root vowel.

In addition to vowel harmony, consonant harmony rules are also important phonetic rules, which are directly related to the continuation of many affixes.

In terms of morphology, an important feature of Turkish is the personal possessive affix, which means adding the corresponding affix after the central word to indicate the person it belongs to. In addition, there is no so-called preposition, and the function of the preposition is added to the locative, adverbial and directional affixes after the stem.

In terms of syntax, the predicate at the end of any sentence has a personal affix consistent with the subject, so the subject is often omitted. The basic feature of Turkish is that it relies on adding suffixes to mark grammatical meaning.

In situations where English uses independent clauses guided by pronouns, Turkish tends to use noun phrases, such as the complex sentence "I know you are a good person" in Turkish, which is expressed as "I know you are a good person".

The predicate of the verb sentence is postpositioned, and the expression form of the predicate verb can basically be summarized as: stem + aspect affix + tense person affix. In addition, the attributive and attributive clauses are placed in front.

Turks, who account for about 90% of Türkiye’s population, speak Turkish.

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Turkish