Re: Turkey (Re: cecla fanta flalu)

[Thorild Selen <thorild@xxxxxx.xx.xxx]

Robin Turner writes:

> "Turkey" or "Türkiye" (preferably both). {turkie} or {turki,e} manage this
> reasonably well (if you try saying them out loud, the result is pretty
> similar). A final consonant needs to be as unobtrusive as possible, so I'd
> still go for {s} . Incidentally, {turkiet} sounds a bit too much like
> "Türkiyat", the old word for "Türkoloji" for my tastes.

And incidentally, the country is actually called Turkiet in Swedish...
What does Türkoloji mean? (Have I missed something here?)

/Thorild