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Index / Languages /
Turkic languages
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Total calculated to the MENA, with 490 million inhabitants.
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Language family; representing several different languages with similarities in structure and history. Turkic languages represent a subdivision of the Altaic language family.
The fundamental features which distinguish the Altaic languages from the Indo-European are:
- Vowel harmony.
- The absence of gender.
- Agglutination (words are composed of a sequence of word elements, each of representing only one grammatical category.)
- Adjectives precede nouns.
- Verbs come at the end of the sentence.
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