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Online Turkish Language Learning Tips, Tipoffs, Tricks, Traps, Techniques, Curiosities, and Oddities... Regional Turkish Accents Related Pages: Example of Laz-accented speech-pattern: See the movie-clip for Yedi Kocalı (The Woman with Seven Husbands) Other 'Tips' pages Profiles of the Turkish People The Turkish Kinsey Report Gossipy Turkish Who's Who The Lying Eyes Club of Turkey Turkish Culture -- Two Turkish traditions we especially like Turkish Culture -- 4 things you shouldn't do in Turkey Turkish Culture -- 5 things you should do in Turkey Turkish Superstitions Turkish Circumcision Ceremonies Circumcision and what many Turks believe about Westerners Also: Whole Earth Catalog of Turkish Movies Newsreaders Encyclopedic Dictionary, Index Mature Foreign British Bride in Turkey Mature Foreign Swedish Bride in Turkey The Regional Accents of Turkey Shall I pahk the cah in the pahking lot...? We also don't own the market on regional accents... Regional accents in Turkey are alive and well, thank you. Perhaps the best known is the one from the Black Sea region called the Laz language accent -- which is well documented in Turkish books and stories. For example, if you buy any of the Temel humor books, you'll find the stories sprinkled heavily with Temel's own special Black Sea accent. Let's eavesdrop on this exchange between Temel and a male friend -- as they get ready to leave on holiday... With Black Sea accent and slang... "Temel tatile çıktığımızda ısığı açık pırakalum." "Haçan pen te hırsızlar el feneriyle tolaşı sanırtum." Without Black Sea accent and slang... "Temel tatile çıktığımızda ısığı açık bırakalım." "Dostum ben de hırsızlar el feneriyle dolaşır sanırdım." English Translation... "Temel, let's leave the lights on while we're on vacation." "[Good idea] my friend. I too was worried how the burglars could find there way around with only a flashlight." Our Türkçe Dilbilgisi (Turkish grammar book) lists no less than twenty Turkish dialects spoken worldwide. So we hesitate to think of the many more examples of accents and slang that must exist in each of them... Still, it's said -- that if you stick to standard vocabulary and if you speak clearly, you can be understood in any of the regions where the dialects are spoken. And those regions cover a very large span of territory -- from enclaves in Lithuania, Belarus, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Greece -- to Turkey itself, dipping into Cyprus, Syria, Iraq, Iran, through Azerbaijan, into Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia...all the way to the Western provinces of China and the North Eastern borders of Russia! We've heard that over 200 million people speak Turkish, making it the 7th most spoken language in the World. And that doesn't even take into consideration the large Turkish communities in Germany, the USA, Australia, and Canada! Related Pages: Example of Laz-accented speech-pattern: See the movie-clip for Yedi Kocalı (The Woman with Seven Husbands) Other 'Tips' pages Profiles of the Turkish People The Turkish Kinsey Report Gossipy Turkish Who's Who The Lying Eyes Club of Turkey Turkish Culture -- Two Turkish traditions we especially like Turkish Culture -- 4 things you shouldn't do in Turkey Turkish Culture -- 5 things you should do in Turkey Turkish Superstitions Circumcision and what many Turks believe about Westerners Also: Whole Earth Catalog of Turkish Movies Turkish National Election, 2007 Newsreaders Encyclopedic Dictionary, Index Mature Foreign British Bride in Turkey Mature Foreign Swedish Bride in Turkey Language-Learning Related Pages: Translating Turkish, the basics Essential Turkish Vocabulary Turkish Verbs Essential Idioms, Index Essential Suffixes, Index Sentence Structure, Standard Turkish Pronunciation Turkish Accenting Numbers in Turkish Other Turkish Difficulties Unrelated fun: Frequently asked questions about Turkey and the Turkish language Habibullah and the Great Cannon Caper A simple Turkish 'thing'... Turkish Belly Dancers Sneeeezing in Turkish Turkish Terms Of Endearment Turkish Personal Names Politically Incorrect Turkish Humor Why Off-Color Turkish is important too Turkish Conventional and 'Erotik' Movies, Index The World's Worst Sport Novelty Turkish Wedding Invitations

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