[SOLVED] Learning Turkic Languages

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<a href="/tr/translator/muaz" class="userpopupinfo" rel="user1092413">Taralom <div class="author_icon" title="Page author" ></div></a>
Katıldığı tarih: 09.09.2011
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I'm native Turkish and i speak Turkish but there are many Turkic languages and some of them quite familiar with my own like Azerbaijani and some of them seem more strange.Yet i'd like to learn, least, to start with Azerbaijani.What is your suggestions ? And, if you are azerbaijani let me know !

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Katıldığı tarih: 12.10.2010

From most similar to most distant, the major languages range like this:

Azerbaijani -> Turkmen -> Uzbek -> Uyghur -> Tatar -> Kazakh -> Kyrgyz

While Turkmen is structurally more similar to Turkish, Uzbek has lots of common Persian loanwords and so sometimes it can be somewhat easier to understand.

You're most probably only familiar with the Latin script, so I'd recommend you to start with one of the languages using that, namely Azerbaijani, Turkmen or Uzbek.