Re: Turkey (Re: cecla fanta flalu)

[Thorild Selen <thorild@Update.UU.SE>]

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