1. CHARACTERISTICS of LANGUAGE
• System of secret agreements.
• Carrier and Transmitter of culture
2. A language takes it’s power from it’s history, structure, vocabulary, commonness in world and it’s effect.
Different languages that we speak now are derived from a main language.
The language which other languages are rooted in, is Main Language.
Turkish go back to the 6th century.
More than 200 million people
in an area of 12 million square kilometer speak the dialects of Turkish.
Turkish is the 5th most spoken language in the world.
Subject + Object + Verb - Çocuk elmayı yedi.
Turkish is an agglutinative language- El:hand El+ler:hands El+ler+in:your hands
4.Historical Dialects of
Turkish are:
4.1 Contemporary Dialects of
Turkish are:
Culture
is the set of established achievements, rules and practices created and maintained by a particular group of people.
Material Culture refers to the physical objects or artifacts.
Non‐material Culture refers to the nonphysical ideas including:
There are two types of Cultural Changes:
• Free cultural changes
These occur naturally through voluntary exchange,
• Forced cultural changes
This happens under external pressure or coercion.
Common features among languages create language families
Sayings showing cultural experience enrich the language: