Re: Turkey (Re: cecla fanta flalu)

[Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

la torild. cusku di'e

>  > "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...

Hmm, if there are any other languages that do this, then {turki,et} might be worth
it, I suppose.

>
> What does Türkoloji mean? (Have I missed something here?)
>

It's the study of things Turkish/Turkic. "Türkiyat" is a word I've only seen in
dictionaries.  I imagine the Turkish Language Institute would prefer something
"purer" like "Türkbilim" ;-)

co'o mi'e robin.