Why The Letter Q Has Only Been Legal In Turkey For 8 Years
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Turkish amusement parks must have been amazing 8 years ago, considering no queues were allowed
Angry upvote
Ohhh you.....
Take my vote and leave.
Bri ish humour
Aww, me friend just missed that time, she’s was too young to remember the queueless rides
(Also my friend is Turkish not me)
@@wiebemartens1030 This is TH-cam.
They're called "Likes" here.
Fun fact, Erdogan is actually spelled Erdoğan with one of those extra letters they added. The ğ sound doesn’t exist in English so English speakers most commonly pronounce it like… w.
Is it like the ģ (ɟ) letter?
In Arabic we pronounce it as Khaa as in Erdo khaa n
It's actually silent but just lengthens the preceding vowel, right?
@@BichaelStevens No it's not. It is more or less silent.
@@AlexOfTheWoods99 Correct. It used to be pronounced as a velar approximate and it's still is in more eastern dialects but in standard Turkish it just lengthens the preceding vowel.
oh yes, I have found it, THE MISTAKE IN YOUR VIDEO. You said that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is the founder of Turkish Empire. But he is actually the founder of Republic of Turkey. SO GUESS WHAT? Now you have a material for your next mistake video.
Even more ironic since he ended an empire in doing so
Uuu i noticed it too. Was checking if someone already noticed this for the hai mistake video. Hats off to you
I was about to say that too lol
Also funny how we are speaking English here between Turkish people
@@oglcn11 god failed in the whole tower of babel conspiracy 😑
The part about Russian is the other way around: there's no "w" sound in Russian, so there's no letter for it. There is, however, a "w" sound in Belarusian, so there is a letter for it - ў
Meanwhile Ukrainian has the w sound and uses в for the w sound.
@@intothevoid5074 That's not correct. Ukrainian В is just simply V. There's no dedicated W-sounding letter in Ukrainian.
-- Someone from Ukraine
Thank you. Germans (myself included) often pronunce w in english as /v/ as well, yet we still have a w in our alphabet. Sounds and letters are just not the same
Yeah it's like saying English has no "ɲ" sound (The "n" sound in pinata) because there is no letter for it I mean the existence of ɲ in Portuguese disproves that because unlike in Spanish we write it like "Nh" because it's better than "Ñ" also if I show you the letters しちつふ for the sounds ɕi, tɕi, tsɯ and ɸɯ you won't be able to pronounce it so what he said makes no sense.
That's the same logic as и and й lol
2:38 Atatürk was the founder of the Republic of Turkey, not the Turkish (ottoman?) Empire.
Calling Ottoman Empire a Turkish Empire is an historical abuse. Yes, Ottoman was ruled by Turkish dynasty but it was NOT an ethnocentric state, at least until it started to collapse in 19th century and due to this collapse for first time it is history becoming majority ethnic Turkish. Basically the first real action to transform The Sublime Ottoman State (it was the official name) into a Turkish state were taken in 1902 when Young Turks change their platform from pro-multi-ethnic to Turkish nationalism. So calling Atatürk a founder of Turkey (a state) is historically and factually correct.
EDIT: I did not notice that he said "Turkish Empire" instead of Turkey. Turkey post WW1 was everything but an empire. :D
Im pretty sure its supposed to be a joke, but IMO its not really a good one and it just spawns comments like yours correcting it.
...Which might be intentional, since more people making comments correcting that mistake means the video gets more engagement and gets prioritized by the TH-cam algorithm, recommending it to more people and getting more ad-revenue.
Bro it's a poorly made video, don't think about it. He also mispronounces and miswrites a lot of Turkish names while calling Türkiye (Turkey changed it's English name from Turkey to Turkiye recently) out for doing the same thing.
@@Hadar1991 Many Europeans called it the Turkish Empire / Turkey.
@@Hadar1991 mad much?
"Learn the skills of paying my mortgage"
LMAO, this is why I come back to these videos
Literally laugh out loud when i heard that.
lol one of the best jokes uttered by Sam
I died at the "QWX McQWXW-Q"
At 1:42, you say, "There's no /w/ sound in Russian, because there's no letter for that." You have that backwards. It would be more correct to say, "The Russian alphabet doesn't have a letter like 'W', because there's no sound like /w/ in the Russian language." The spoken language is the thing that shapes the writing system, not the reverse. Your video even demonstrates this point, when you talk about how Ataturk adjusted the Roman alphabet to fit Turkish better, by adding and removing letters.
Knowing HAI that's probably a subtle joke.
@@caiocc12 Either that or Sam from Wendover is trying to sabotage Sam from HAI's video
it's a bit back and forth. You're right that the scriot doesn't need the letter because it has no sound for it, but it also means that when it afopts loanwords from other languages, they will be adjusted to work with the script, thereby blocking the sound out of the language as well.
Neither of that is correct, you can have two letters representing a different sound in combination
No way he used Algeria's flag for modern standard Arabic, Algerian dialect is the furthest thing from standard Arabic 💀
Word
@Weasel yeah i just said algerian darja since he put the algerian flag
@Weasel naaaah our dialect is 100 percent understandable
Local dialects of Algerians/Moroccans/Tunisians are very different from standard arabic, but when people there speak standard arabic they get it perfect
@Cali Boy ARAB Republic of Egypt, Syrian ARAB Republic, united ARAB emirates... nahh the Arab league flag is better
This video is based on bits and pieces. No one made decent research for it but i heard some friend style knowledge all of it.
First of all, Atatürk is founder of Republic of Turkey not the empire.
Secondly, Turkish Latin Script was accepted and introduced in 1928. Hawar Script is invented in 1932 and it did not accept popularly for long time. Kurds used Arabic Script for long time. Even today many Kurds still use Arabic Script instead of Latin Script.
Thirdly, law was not about banning letters, it was about formal using. This law was made to abandon old script and modernization. When someone wanted to use these letters, they could use them. Also, if i want to use 'ğ' or 'ö' in English it would be absurd. Same logic would be applied here.
Kurdish language was oppressed for many years but this law was technical law and after coup d'état in 1980 it used frequently. Also, I have to add this you could put Kurdish names even most oppressed times of Kurdish language. Generally this topic is used as reason to become refugee in EU countries for many years.
If you read till here, have a nice day all Kurds, Turks and every people.
Muhricuhnnn knowledge about the outside world at its finest. ELI5 for 5 y.o. intellect. What more can you expect?
It is ridiculous to ban QWX in the first place, when most Turks use QWERTY-Keyboards anyways. Many Turkic languages use it officially on top of that.
And it is true that the law was disproportionately used to suppress the Kurdish language. Theoretically this law applied to everyone, but it was Kurds, that were targeted most in practice.
In Turkey and Syria the Latin/ Hawar alphabet is almost used exclusively for Kurdish writing. In fact I have never seen Kurmanji written with the Arabic script outside of old historical documents.
Even Iraqi Kurds try to include transliterations into the Hawar alphabet in their media outlets as much as possible nowadays (alongside the Arabic script).
@@pleasurereport It did not target anyone because it was very technical thing. It is about official papers. And also, Turkish Latin Script do not include 'q,w,x' and it was accepted in 1928 and Hawar Script was made in 1932. How Turkey could target even something that didn't t exist. For example, if i live in US and I want to put a name to my child and I choose 'Özgür', I have to change as 'Ozgur'. Is this oppression or technical regulation.
I think he said "Turkish Empire" as a joke
@@pleasurereport do you really think qwerty keyboards were widely used in 1928?🤣 also, the letters were not banned they were only banned in formal use because turkish language doesnt need those letters, we already have all the phonetics covered with k, v and s.
crazy how every natural language selected its entire phonological inventory by only using sounds they had already made letters for
i don't think you have that write
Its the other around
Because some people seem to be confused, I'm going to add the obligatory "/s" for Ben.
@@MohammedAli-hl4mr u missed the joke. He said it in the video
Imagine if this vid was sponsored by xerox
Interesting
As a Turkish person I literally never even knew those letters were ever "illegal" lol
Those letters are not illegal lol. This video is ridiculous.
XQQXQXQQXXWWQXWXXQQXWQXWXXWQWWXWQQXXXXXQQQXQQWWQQWQQWWWQQXWWXWQWXWWWWQWWXXXWXWWQQXWXWQQQQXWQXWQQWWWWWXWQQWQQWQWQWQXXWWWQQQXXXXXWQXXXXQXWXQWXXQQWWWWWXWQXQWWQQWQXQQWXQWQQXQQQXQXXWXWWQXQXXXWXWXWQQQQXXXWXQQQQXXXXXQXQXWXWWWWXQWQWXXQXQWQXXQQWXQQWWQXQQWWXQQWQWXXWXQXQXXQXXWWQWXWXXXXQQWXWWXXWQWXXQXWWQWWQQWQWXWXXQQXXXXQWWQWQWWQXXWWQWWQWQXWXXWXQQQQWWQQXWQWQXWXWWWXWXWXQXXXQWXQWXXQWWQQXXQQWXXWQQWWWWQXXQQQWXXQXQQWXXWWQQQXWWXWXXQXQWWXQQXQQXWXQQWWWWXQWQXQXQQXXXXWQWXWWQWXQWWWWXXQWWQWQQXQWXQWQXXXXWXWWXWQQXXXXXQWQQWWWXWXQXQQQXWQWWWWXWQXWXXQXXQXQXXQXXXXWWXXWWXQWQWQQXXQQWXQWQXQQWQQWQXWXWXXXQWXQQQXXQXWWQQWWWWXXWQXQXWXXWQWWXXXWWWXXXWWQXQXXXQXXXXXXXQWWWXXWWXQXXQXWQQXQQQXWWWQQWQXXWQWWQXQQWWQQWWQXWQWXQXQQWXWXQQWQXXWXXXQXWQWXWXXXQWXQQQXQXQQXXQWXQWXXXXWWQQXQXXQWQXWXQWQWXWWXWXXWXWWXWWXWWQXXXWQWQXXWQXWQQWXWWQXQQXWXXWQXXWQWWQXQQWWQQQWWXWWXQQXWXQQXQWQQQWQXWQXWQQWQQWXXQXWQXQXQQWQQWQWXWXQXQQQXQXQXWXQWXXXQQWQQQWQXWWWQXXWQQQXWQQQXWXQQXXWXWQXXXWQXQQXXWXQXQQWQXXXXXXQQWWXWQWQQWXXWXWXXQQWWWXWWWWWWXWQQWWWWQWXWWWXXWQWXWWQXQWQQ
@@turcarumimperator1395 They were though but of course you needed to be Kurdish or another minority that the goverment didn't like.
Nasıl bilemezsin ?!
Hatta legal olduğunda birisi çocuğuna Alex adını vermişti
Comparing Atatürk and Erdoğan, saying Atatürk was racist and erdoğan loves democracy is like: comparing apple and cigarette, and saying "hey apple seed is bad for you, so apple is bad, cigarette gives you dopamin there for it is the greatest thing ever..
He said rrdogan loved democracy in a sarcastic way.
4:43
@xyz-rk7ruYeah no, he was as lenient as one could be given the circumstances. He wasn't a supreme leader when he died. In fact, he already retired before his death. He was the man who gave every citizen equal rights and women the right to vote and be elected. He became friends with the Greek Prime minister after the Greco-Turkish War and the Greek PM nominated him for the nobel peace prize.
Atatürk was incredibly racist and a dictator. People were persecuted just for being religious, he tried to turkify the call to prayer and forbade it in arabic. A guy was hanged because of a pamphlet that allegedly caused people to protest against the law that forbade the Fez and mandated the wearing of western hats.
@IsmailShields İslam is the why Türkiye is going down. Atatürk secularised the government but Erdoğan ruined it. Atatürk would be ashamed if he sees what we are rn.
1:23 You say the Roman alphabet doesn't have a letter for the sound Qaf makes, but it kind of does. The letter Q doesn't have its own sound in Latin, it adopted it from Greek, which adopted it from Phoenician, which used it for the same Semitic consonant Qaf. The reason the Greeks adopted this letter despite not having that consonant was that the letters were also used to write numbers so they needed all the letters. It doesn't survive in Greek but stuck around in Latin (which used the letter combination qu for kw sounds).
tl;dr the letters qaf and Q have the same Phoenician ancestor
They still look pretty similar even (Q | ق)
Well, Q is like the middle between K and Qaf.
@@Aresydatch the plot thickenz
Btw , that's the reason that many Muslims write Qur'an as opposed to Koran since Qur'an has a qaf and Muslims online kinda decided that they would use Q whenever they needed to transliterate a word with a Qaf to English .
@@hmmm3210 If the word Quantum can exist in English, why not Quran?
Damn, I’ve only been legal in Turkey for 8 years
Quinn Jameson international criminal.
your name would be come uinn in that case.
@@sirBrouwer no, Ğuinn.
Hello Kuin Ceymsın. This is what your name is here.
I hope you're 26, it would funny on another level 😅
1:38
Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian have letters Ш, Ч, and Ж, while English has no their equivalent. West Slavic have Š, Č and Ž, which make same sound. In English, these are Sh, Ch and Zh.
Polish uses W for V, and Ł for W.
Those letters may look like W, Y, and X, but.
Do they make the same Sounds as W, Y, and X do in English?
In Spanish there's a sound that doesn't exist in English, but exist in French and Italian. The later two spell it with "Gn" but Spanish decided to crate a whole new letter for it: Ñ
And Bulgarian has Ъ, while Serbian omits the letter but not the sound for reason and the Russians have no idea how to pronounce it.
@@victornoel36 yeah n in portuguese we use a combination of N and H, NH in Portuguese=GN in Italian and Ñ in Spanish
Russian also has Щ ("sch"?) and Ы ("i" but not quite).
We also have letters Ь and Ъ with no sound - they modify others in a way that is difficult to explain.
We have 33 letters in total (one of which is optional).
So we are quite okay without "W".
Kurdish Latin Alphabet was created in 1932 after Turkish Latin Alphabet which was created in 1928. So, when an alphabet for Turkish Language was being devised, there was no Kurdish Latin Alphabet to think of. The lack of qwx is in fact due to those sounds not existing in Turkish. The problems related to Kurdish Language and qwx arose much later on.
Edit: Also, wtf is Turkish Empire? It is Republic of Turkey
The way you said “bebsi” is absolutely hilarious because you sounded like a guy from shoubra saying it
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2:38 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was NOT founder of Turkish Empire - he was founder of modern Turkish republic, because Turish Empire collapsed after World War 1.
Ah, I can see this in new "mistakes video" =)
There is no Turkish Empire. It was Ottoman Empire. Ottoman is a family name of ruling sultans btw.
@@umutneo Those sultans were Turks btw.
@Timur SerdengeçtiSo you are asking why i am correcting it? Some calling Turkish Empire does not mean it is a correct term.
Ayrıca bilmediğin şeyleri tartışarak öğrenirsin. Bilmediğin şeyi bilemezsin. Ego tatmini olduysan buradan uzaklaşabilirsin.
@@barca8341 no? the first ever seljuk khan was a mix, his mom was greek, and onwards all the moms of khans, sultans were almost always non-turks. how can you be turk if your maternal lineage is almost always non turk? you know those moms make the sultan babies right? so each generation they become less and less turkic. today's turkish population; 50% turkic MAX. sultans were much more mixed than a regular turk
@@MIKRASIATISSA The most BIASED and sided paragraph ever. The first ever seljuk khan's mother is NOT greek lmao. If you're going to try to educate someone then get your facts right. It's true that some of their mother's were indeed FOREIGNER but those were political marriages. Turkic dynasties always held the Turkic culture. Sure, sometimes they mixed it with other cultures but they never threw away their own culture. What do you mean "no?" like there is not a single respected historian that denies the roots of them. They turkicized anatolia in the end, no? Why Turkicize anatolia if you're not a Turk?
The letters Q,W,X werent "banned" because the government hated Kurds (in fact, the Kurdish Latin alphabet was invented 4 years after the Turkish Latin alphabet to be compatible with it) they were simply not included in the Turkish alphabet because there was no need for them in Turkish. They were discouraged from usage in Turkish due to the possibility of educated speakers of European languages such as French mistakenly using them.
And the stricter intrepretation of this resulting in sort of a ban was brought by Kenan Evren in the 1980 coup (kenan evren in general is a bell end look him up) NOT by Atatürk, why would he, he was a fluent French speaker, a language with a lot of Q's in it. What was allowed in 2013 was to have these letters in official documents like ID cards etc in the same way you could not record "Çöpçü Şişli Yoğurdu" in England or America properly because the English alphabet does not have Ç Ğ ı Ş Ö Ü , thus to give Kurdish names you replaced Q W X with K V H .
Also its the Turkish Republic not Empire lol
Katiliyorum. Video cok kötü göstermis bizi.
This video is bullshit propaganda. Half as Interesting more like Half as Factual.
@@markusoliverasagtg9704 "The letters Q,W,X werent "banned" because the government hated Kurds [...] they were simply not included in the Turkish alphabet because there was no need for them in Turkish."
I find that hard to believe. Firstly, as mentioned in the video using them could result in fines so it's not merely a case of them not being included in the Turkish alphabet. That can reasonably be called an actual ban. Secondly, the selective enforcement against the Kurds suggests that they were indeed being targeted. Also note that after the 1980 coup (which you mentioned) the Kurdish language was banned (but the ban has since been lifted).
Turkey isn't a country only for Turks. Kurds are a large minority, therefore they should also have the right to have their names written in their language when they live in their traditional homeland
Many writing systems are tailored for their languages. In Semitic languages consonants give the meaning while vowels are secondary, hence abjads. Usually impure, with hints for necessary vowels. Phonology may suggest a syllabary or an abugida. And so on. Tom Scott did a video (th-cam.com/video/xW4hI_METac/w-d-xo.html) on Inuktitut (written in an abugida) a while back along these lines.
Good explanation. We use this script today. Many words have the same alphabetic spelling but different meaning depending on the pronunciation hence have to be written with abjids.
He did not explain that Arabic can be written "vocalized or unvocalized" and the difference is whether they write symbols for the vowels or not. Technically when written with all the vowels like in the Quran it is an alphabet with some of the vowels written smaller than the consonants because they're pronounced for a shorter period of time.
@@adriennefloreen I'm aware that Arabic and Hebrew can be written with all vowels indicated for special applications like children's books. On a day-to-day basis they're not.
You don't need to be rude.
Exactly this. Most languages do that to their scripts I think. English is an exception in the way.
What a coincidence, I was just watching a video about the Inuktitut writing sytem yesterday...
But it was from KhAnubis.
"Russians don't pronounce w because there's no letter for that". I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. Russian doesn't have a letter for w because Russians don't pronounce that sound.
He said Russian accents in the English language don't include W
@@vulpes7079 Well then I must've missed that part because my god could that not be more true. One of the most common things you'll hear a heavy Russian accented English speaker do is enunciate V sounds with Ws, thus saying Wodka, Wedy/Wery, etc in example. So that would then mean either he was about as backwards with it as possible, or, you got what he was saying reversed.
@@TheCriminalViolin no, I didn't get it reversed, lmao. It's literally what he said. Russian accents in English pronounce W as V
that's obviously a joke
This is the first time you watched a HAI video I guess? 😅
You can't just call Ted Cruz the Zodiac Killer, it's too realistic. Mr. Freeze, maybe.
Stop blaming Calgarians for everything, dammit
2:36 Ataturk is the founder of the Turkish Republic, not the Turkish Empire, in fact he ended the Ottoman Empire
I wouldn't say he ended the Ottoman Empire. It was more like the empire was dead and he said "I'm the government now"
@@efeyzee hah, that would be more accurate
@@efeyzee uhm not really, ottoman put a reward on ataturk, he was going to be executed by ottoman... ataturk quite literally ended ottoman, that's a fact, you either like it or not. and right after that he changed everything, shaped the country westward, gained the trust of the western world and the east. i get it you like glorifying the ottoman history but it wasn't always golden ages y'know, the empire was dead, yes but after 1700's till the fall, the imperial palace was fairly corrupted, people were getting poorer and poorer, it was not like how nationalists would portray ottoman.
@@MIKRASIATISSA what no I'm not glorifying the Ottoman Empire lol. The Empire was dead after being forced to sign the Armistice of Mudos after WWI. The entire point of the Ankara government was to say wait no we don't want that we want to fight for independence. So like the Turkish War of Independence wasn't against the Ottoman forces, it was against the WWI Allied forces
"Mustafa Kemal is here to censor me."
"Racist reason"
"Mustafa Kemal, the founder of the Turkish *Empire*"
Congrats, you're on a good roll.
Hakkaten ya
Lazgineer gaming
@@ioratv That was actually my name in steam while the engineer gaming shit was on high lol.
OP had bad sources.
@@burhanbudak6041 Bad sources? You could google these and find better sources. I don't give a damn.
Straight up propaganda.
My name is literally WAQQAS.
Some correction: The Latin Turkish Alphabet was officialy adapted in 1928 and the Kurdish Latin Alphabet was first proposed in 1932. The Kurdish Alphabet took inspiration from the Turkish Alphabet thats why it is very similar except this three letters. In the Turkish Alphabet reason for the exlusion of these three letters were simply because it didn't needed them. The racist laws came in the later years. So the Turkish Alphabet was not made to be racist or anything of that sort.
Could we stop asking when Turkey started to be extremely racist against Kurds and instead go back to the status in which they were simply considered as a part of society?
I don't say that the world needs a Kurdistan (looking at Israel that's probably not worth it), but still...
@@catriamflockentanz it is not worth it for non_kurdish poeple , but for us kurds it is well worth it!
@@catriamflockentanz In Turkey the overwhelming majority of Kurds feel included in the Turkish society. There are many Kurds living in the big western cities like Istanbul and Izmır and even in the east they are considered as equals.
Kurds in Turkey, especially in the East, want the opportunity of Kurdish language to be seen as an official regional language, so it could be fully included in everyday life of these people. The biggest push there is on having Kurdish language thought in schools. So, there isn't really support for separatism but a push for more cultural inclusion.
So, really if you don't mind the clown that is currently ruling Turkey (Who targets basically everybody and everything for a few more votes), Kurds are not seen as second class citizen in Turkey.
Love from Turkey❤️ Thank you for making a video about us.But there is a misinformation at 2:37 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is the founder of Republic of Turkey, NOT the Turkish Empire.
A lot of European Languages that use the Latin Alphabet have added extra characters for their language. In German for example there are these 4 bad boys: äöüß. The first 3 (so äöü) can also be written without the two dots and with an e behind them (so like ae, oe, ue). This is considered the "old" way of writing however. The first three letters are often used in writing nouns in plural (so the word "Haus" becomes "Häuser"), whereas the ß is used when the s is pronounced long, but sharply (example Fuß, but not in Fluss).
Fun Fact: ß didn't have an upper-case variant up until very recently, so if you use caps-lock on a German keyboard and press the ß key, it comes out as ? (as that's the shifted function of that key, not the upper-case ß).
These were just examples from the German language, but you've surely seen the a with the circle on top in Ikea, which is a common letter in Swedish...
Another example: Polish also added some: ą, ę (nasal "on" and "en"), ż (in English it would be kinda like "zh"), ź (kinda "zhi"), ć (kinda "chi"), ń (kinda "ni"), ó (in modern day it is functionally the same as "u", but there have been slight differences between the two in the past, that's why it is still in use in some words)
In Esperanto we have ĉ (for ch), ĝ (for j as in jail), ĥ (it's the [x] or the [χ] sound, although it's being slowly removed from the language), ĵ ([ʒ], like "si" in "vision"), ŝ (for sh) and ŭ (for w).
In Esperanto there is a rule: "one letter - one sound".
Why "ŭ" and not "w"? I don't know.
Chiming in for Spanish, where we added ñ (sounding like the gn in lasagna).
We also added á,é,í,ó,ú and ü, the first five vowels are used to indicate where the tonal stress should be placed in a word, for example brother would be written as bróther (or if we want to get closer to actual Spanish it’d be bróder), and the ü is used to signify that the u should be pronounced when placed next to a g, for example güe would be pronounced as the WHE part of where.
Estonian: õ
@@RGG800 ... and what about 'ch', 'll', 'rr'? I was taught those count as one letter, when I was learning Spanish, so long ago. Do they not count as one letter anymore?
The Roman alphabet was ultimately derived from the Phoenician and other Mediterranean scripts, so it actually does have a letter representing the Semitic “Q” sound… Q! It’s just that most of those Europeans putting it to use didn’t pronounce it that way.
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"Turkish Empire" oof! I think you meant "republic"...
This law was so selective, even Turkish keyboards on computers had Qs and Ws.
Also obligatory corrections:
@2:39 you claim Atatürk founded the Turkish "Empire" (should be Republic)
@4:40 you don't pronounce the "ğ" in his name (Ğ's are mostly silent)
And at 2:28 he says "abjab" instead of "abjad".
Actually ‘Ğ’ is not silent. Also the keyboard thing was because all computers were imports and needed the entirety of the English alphabet to work.
@@rusenaliylmaz4245 for non turkish speakers, I find it's easiest to just say it's "mostly" silent. Better than hearing them say erdoGan and gündoGan.
@@rusenaliylmaz4245 No? Keyboards still have those extra 6 letters added on them + the xqw
@@t3pi0can83 that doesn’t contradict my comment tho.
Kurdish didn't have a Latin script at the time of the introduction of Romanized Turkish alphabet?? Faulty argument from the start..
@@bjork13kurds outside of turkey still use arabic alphabet. Lmao
@@bjork13strict standardization practices. The young republic had to lay a strong foundation for the future. A half-assed flimsy alphabet reform wouldn't be successful in the long run. Also, Kurds could've just used V, H and K instead for their names WHICH THEY ALREADY DO. This is just a stupid misinformed as usual video about Turks and Kurds.
It was enforced on kurds either way
@@stringtheory4058 it was enforced on everyone. Kurds are the equal citizens of the Turkish Republic. There is no difference based on ethnicity. Turkey is a state and has the right to decide its own official language and script.
@@egeyaln8223 but when Kurds have their own script and language how would u say that they are equal citizens when they would be fined for even writing in their own language. If iraq had a law that didnt allow turkmen to write in their own script and language would you still say that turkmen are equal citizens in iraq.
OMG that’s almost 6 minutes of my life I will NEVER get back. 🤦🏻♂️
Sultan Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Khan. The founder of Empire of Turkey.
Lol.
This video has no clue.
Letters Q, W and X were originally banned to prevent unofficial modifications to the newly adopted Turkish alphabet. They were only banned in Turkish writing. There was nothing preventing people from using them while writing in other languages like English or French, or even Kurdish, for that matter, if a Romanized Kurdish alphabet had been introduced at that time.
If some people could not use those letters in their names while getting their citizen IDs, that was an example of enforcing a national language and script, rather than racism. If a child were born to Turkish speaking parents in a Western nation, with a citizenship of that nation, that child's name on his/her IDs could not include Turkish letters that were not found in the language of that nation. Would that be racism? Russia and Eastern Europe could also serve as examples. People from ethnic minorities have their names spelled out in their Cyrillic alphabets, not in any script they could freely choose. Are they also examples of racism?
There may have been cases where authorities used such old bans as an excuse to suppress an ethnic language or an alternative writing system, but that was definitely not the original intention of the ban.
Small addition to 3:01, we also using capital i (İ) and small I (ı) in addition of latin alphabet which only uses small i and capital I.
I speak Arabic and the ق wasn’t far off at all, instead of “kalf” it should be “kauf”, also great video once again!
Nobody cares
personally, I usually use a q for the ق
@@levranz1054 you not caring about shit in the first place is the reason you don’t get bitches 😹👎🗿
@@aminelswefy1808 even I recently started doing that
The way to pronounce is there but still, the whole point of "ق" is the letter itself, we have the kef and kauf, they can't pronounce it at all.
The letter (V) in Turkish represents the same sound as (W) does in languages like English. So what Turkish really doesn't have is the weird quirky (V) sound of English which is basically halfway between English (W) / Turkish (V) and (F).
yo ingilizcedeki v sesi bizim v ve almancadaki w ile aynı, ingilizcedeki w ise dudaklar yuvarlanarak söyleniyo
hani v f arası ne alaka anlamadım
(for non turks, theyre wrong. our v is the same as the w in german and the v in english, and we indeed dont have a sound corresponding to the english w)
/v/ is just a voiced F sound.
No. Indeed Turkish V and English W sounds are pretty different. Most Turks don’t hear the difference. Also, most Turks cannot pronounce W.
@@polielie says the one who doesn't have an idea how Sarıkamış is spelled. Please.
@@HOPEfullBoi01 Take a deep breath and count the number of fallacies in your argument.
1:39, no, no, there's no letter for it cause there's no sound.
Quick correction: in Russia, we really don't have a letter for 'W', but we rarely use 'V' for 'W', we usually use 'ua' or 'ue' or 'ui' for w, so we write 'Will' as 'Уилл' (Uill)
In Russian you write Whales as “Уельс”. Wtf is a “Вуелс” lol?
Your remark is correct though, and w is often ua or ue so “уа” or “уе” in Cyrillic. In that spirit Whales starts with “у” or “Will” becomes “Уилл”
@@Gwalen idk man I don't use wales in russian that often so ye, 'Will' will be a better example
@@Gwalen россияяяяяяяяя
@@Gwalen yes in Russia, people oftenly use у for w. Like Shawarma, in Russian it is pronounced like Sha-woor-ma in English and written as Шаурма
The Cyrillic script has a letter for the /w/ sound but it's not in Russian: Ўў
My god, if I ever met someone named "Quortney" I think I would just reflexively travel back in time and keep their parents from meeting.
Man I'm from turkey and even i didn't know about qwx was illegal before
Sağlık olsun
Bize ortaokulda tam yasallaştırılırken hoca anlatmıştı, onun dışında zaten video için abartmış yasal dokümanda kullanım dışında bir yasaklığı olmadı hiçbir zaman yani
@@SDBASKURT Türk imparatorluğu diyor videoyu çeken zat
because those letters were not illegal.
Tamamen Kürtçeye karşıydı zaten ülke içinde İngilizce yazarken kimse bize illegal bir şey yapıyorsunuz demiyordu.
incoming angry turkish commenters
Yeah because his video is wrong, he called Atatürk the founder of an empire💀💀
I feel like youtubers are purposefully doing wrong and under-researched videos on "exotic" countries (countries that are east of europe, yes all of them) to get clicks. It was also common in 1800 literature, some french writer would write about arabic or chinese culture without even travelling there.
I think he did well on this
Looks like both dracula and the guy who killed dracula 😂😂😂
Things like these happen all the time.
A good example: A relative had lots of issues with Post as he moved to Los Angeles. Why?
He has the same family name as me (duh!) and it contains an "ä". A foreign letter that California just plain-out refuses to recognize (that would be super-expensive apparently). He started to use "ae" instead of "ä" and had no more issues. But just why?
I think it's because California's servers that store names was only programmed at first to include the 26 letters of the default Latin alphabet, and nothing else.
ASCII and very old computer systems would be my guess :)
The super expensive part would be updating ALL the government systems throughout the state to use and accept the same information coding, when these systems could be essentially the same thing that has been used for 50 years (obviously I don't know the details of each state's specific record holding/computer systems). As in the ASCII or whatever it may run on to decode individual characters may not include various foreign characters/other exotic symbols.
Anyway, tl;dr, when you start messing with information systems, it can be very easy to screw things up so they "break", so sometimes people choose to keep old, outdated systems just to keep the whole thing running smoothly.
A Turk named Özlem moving abroad to US would have to change her name to Oezlem for the same reason. I think racism aspect on this issue is more or less bullshit and has more to do about westernization.
@@jannepeltonen2036 ASCII is racist. From the very beginning Latin script with no diacritics was considered "more important" 😒
In the Spanish alphabet we have the letter W, but it’s reserved exclusively for words adopted from foreign languages (Wifi for example, or names and surnames)
Some people pronounce W the same GU sounds in Spanish (they sound really similar, but I think a plain U sounds the most similar, but in writing it’d weird to just use a single vocal I guess), and will even write the words using those two letters (it’s kind of a “Spanization”)
However I’d say it’s equally common (if not more) to use the English pronunciation and not change the writing. A really good example is wey /guey or weon/gueon.
"The zodiac killer alphabet"
Shows a picture of ted cruz
Lmao I'm dead🤣😭💀
His dad also killed JFK
Ah, I was wondering who that was, now it all makes sense. Quick, call San Francisco PD, HAI’s cracked it.
Turkey changed it's legal English name to Türkiye recently, kinda like Czhechia a few years back
Guess we'll see if it actually takes in the English-speaking world
The Czheks could have named their country after the historical name of the region, the lovely name of "Bohemia", but nooo.
@@jmchez They shoulda Czheked themselves before they wrecked themselves.
they can't change it using a letter that doesn't exist in english. well they can try but it'll be a mockery.
@@jmchez Then they could have the Bohemian rhapsody as their national anthem
@@dreamofstone I've seen reporting also using Turkiye. Point well taken, though
As mentioned by others, the law mentioned in the video was founded before the foundation of the Kurdish latin alphabet which was deliberately made incompatible with Turkish latin alphabet to create a national identity apart from the Turks. The main reason behind the law was to curb Arabic/Persian/French influence meanwhile keeping the language as pure as possible. Beforehand, literacy rate in Turkey was extremely low, and the purification in the language was made to benefit the efforts toward increasing the literacy rate as well as to preserve national identity. Not to mention that country took a radical turn, and people couldn't read Arabic. It became essential to curb false Islamic tendencies (extremism and sectarianism which latter plagues the country today) as people would try to benefit from the illiterate state of the nation. Not long after, some Islamic rebellions occurred.
Literacy comes from standardized education and training, not from imposing fines on people who use "the wrong letter." Indeed, even if somebody can read or write "the wrong letter," that's just an indication they have some literacy, as a truly illiterate person wouldn't understand any alphabet. It may have been done for cultural or religious reasons, sure - but the idea that it was done for literacy reasons is questionable.
@@logicalfundy Let me get deep deep into this since people really want it to be narrative against Kurds... First of all, no one was fined. There's no documentation stating that people were actually fined for this. It was later truely enforced in the 80s coup by Kenan Evren. This is similar to "hat law" which forbid the fez, and replaced it with top hat. This enforcement part was meant to be for the written works such as translated books, administration and government. Secondly, this was part of the standardization process. The reason why Ottoman collapsed was partly because the lack of education. Although the Ottoman Empire was big, they never wrote, let's say, science book because they never invested in education. They bought German weapons instead of making their own. So, almost every single material was translated. What happens when you change alphabet? People would start to use the respective letters instead of the "turn-around" with the native ones. Sure, anyone could read "q or w," but really? So this new nation which tries to increase literacy will have reader, and a book. Book says "w." As mentioned in the video, there's no way to pronounce it. Standardization also includes simplification and purification. Remember, people would get outside materials when educating. How can you educate people if they can't pronounce at the beginning? Why would Turks use "á, ß, ê," and teach them if they can't pronounce it at the beginning? You said it yourself, it's about standardization. What is the point of creating a standard language even if you can't pronounce it? Wouldn't it defeat the purpose?
@@Graham567 the mention of the fine comes from the video. Also, the English language and the various languages in Europe do not require micromanagement by governments to maintain literacy rates, and we're talking the highest literacy rates in the world.
@@logicalfundy Good for you! So what do you suggest I do with this knowledge?
@@Graham567 Stop lying.
1:19
that arabic letter represents a "voiceless uvular stop" (represented by a Q, which i will represent this sound with from now on), which is a "k" sound read further back in the throat; a k sound is read at the soft palate, while q is read at the uvula.
EDIT: My bad, @Teutonic Gaming!
That is true i am arab a more simpler way to say it is that ق is a mix of C K U A Q
@@meanimations5782 i feel like that my way is simpler
It's a uvular stop not a fricative
The fact that we humans can create probably over 100 unique sounds is just amazing to me. If we overlapped all the Alphabets in the world how many individual letters would be left, excluding the ones which are pronounced the same.
Very many.
IPA has 107 letters for vowels, clicks and consonants and another 66 symbols to modify those. However, even with all of that, it fails to describe every different sound that's in use. So you can't just read IPA aloud and sound correct in a language you don't know. You'll be close enough to be understood, and in many cases, people won't be able to point out why you sound wrong, but that's it.
So "excluding ones that are pronounced the same" would only remove a tiny handful of letters, but combining all alphabets would still leave a huge gap between what you get and all the sounds that are actually used. Even English alone would need about 50 letters to have one for each sound it uses---and that'd be just for one single dialect. And it wouldn't catch every variation of those sounds that are used to convey mood without changing which word you say (e.g. "why?" vs "why!" vs "why..."). An average speaker of a single language has about 500 distinct sounds in their regular repertoire (without all the extras you can make by speaking in a goofy way).
In 1932 Turkish Language Society was found by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and their sole purpose was to alter the writing in order for it to become well, Turkish (since there were many words which takes their origin from arabic and persian) But on the other hand french and english words were quite much too! Due to the French and Industrial Revolution foreign words were too many for a language so they started to eliminate them and replace them with Turkish words but while doing that letters such as W,X,Q were unnecessary because they weren't a part of this language.
W,X,Q letters were not prohibited as well.When I was studying linguistics in 2008, I used them pretty much. Rasicm was not a part of the Alphabetic Revolution in 1928. So respectfully, I have to reject your final words which contains racism against Kurdish people in Turkey. And if we are talking about misspelling names, because of this conflict in 1934 there was a Name Revolution too! With these information it is crystal clear that your final words were wrong.
Hope you may get my point and have a great day.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk wasn't the founder of the Turkısh Empire, it should be Republic. It was the whole idea.
It’s a hoke
Joke*
Let's add another pronunciation faux pas for Erdoğan - AIR-do-wan
He's an AIR alright 😂
It’s more like, Ehr-douhh-un there is no w sound not 2 sylabbles like Air in Er
1.99m subs. Congratulations on nearly two million, Sam.
There are some letters that are legal for foreigners but NOT legal for native Japanese people in Japan. The Japanese government standardized the romanization of Japanese names for international purposes such as passports and other legal documents. This meant that in certain cases where some names of native Japanese citizens might have ambiguous romanization solutions, there was only one accepted by the Japanese government. This meant that letters such as L, X or C (CH is a separate situation) could not be used in the romanization of Japanese citizens names. For example that meant that although technically and linguistically, a girl named "Reiko" or "Kiriko" would be just as correct if they romanized their names as "Leico" or "Cilico", these are not allowed on official legal documents - the government mandates that their names be rendered as "Reiko" and "Kiriko" in passports, etc. HOWEVER, NON-NATIVE or MIXED-RACE Japanese citizens are NOT subject to this restriction! So for example, if two American-born Japanese citizens (or a Japanese person married to a foreigner) had a child in Japan, they would legally allowed to name their child Lisa with an L - however if for example Ichiro Suzuki and his Japanese wife wanted to name their child the same thing, the Japanese government REQUIRES that the child's name be romanized as Risa with an R. It's a surreal example of almost reverse discrimination.
It's extra weird because R and L are most certainly NOT interchangeable, but it got lumped in with C/K which largely are.
@@kelleren4840 actually, in Japanese, the sound that is represented by R and L in romanizations is the same exact sound (it lies somewhere in between the English R and L). That’s why Japanese people often have trouble pronouncing the L and R sound when speaking English - those sounds simply doesn’t exist in their language.
2:40 you meant Turkish Republic right?
I've been searching for this comment 😂
*Republic of Türkiye
@@exodus_20_15Same thing.
What you have just watched and heard in this video is mostly groundless and has almost nothing to do with the facts.
1. Modern Turkish is a phonetic language.
2. That means, there is almost always a one-to-one correspondence between what you write and what you read-pronounce.
3. Modern Turkish alphabet is based on International Phonetic Alphabet, which lacks the letters Q and X.
4. Therefore Turkish alphabet does not have them.
5. And the letter W has no equivalent sound in the Turkish language, and accordingly it’s never been included in the alphabet.
6. That’s why the modern Turkish Alphabet does not contain the letters Q, X, and W.
Thanks for reading.
That's not a reason to legally ban letters that don't exist in your language. The Swedish language rarely uses X or Q, but they're not banned because of it.
To be fair, the Roman alphabet isn't even the perfect alphabet for Romance languages. There's a reason Spanish speakers had to invent "ñ," "rr," "ll," and "ch," and why "w" is just kinda there, and "v" and "b" interchangable.
I mean, the _ñ_ and _w_ you sure have a point, but using multiple letters for specific sounds is a perfectly fine feature of the Latin alphabet.
fun fact: cyrillic alphabet is more suitable for polish language than latin but wasn't adopted due to political reasons
And to whoever says "Polish will never be written in Cyrillic"...
Нигды мнье то нье обходзи! Напише́ по полску цырылицо́ без взгле́ду на вшыстко!
I've seen a Polish commenter say under another video that the Latin alphabet works better for Polish. The reason they gave was that the Polish vowels work more logically in Latin alphabet. Maybe that's more important than avoiding the large amount of digraphs that Polish needs in Latin alphabet.
Ok I'll bite: how is Cyrillic better for the Polish language? The latin script seems better for internationality purposes and ease of learning by non-native speakers
@@thedamntrain explain??
@@thedamntrain True, in fact the letter G comes from the fact that a guy named Gaius had his name frequently mispronounced, his name was written CAIVS, so he decided to put a little mark on the letter C to indicate that it was in fact a different sound.
3:13 that is the hardest I have ever laughed at one of your videos I was not expecting that lmao
we as turkish people made our alphabet to write how you spell words. for example washington could be written as "vaşington". deutsche could be written as "doyşe". meanwhile it doesn't differs when spelling these words. everyone in turkey only learns alphabet with letter spelling and word spelling doesn't depends on combination of letters in the word. so, doyşe and vaşington will be spelled same even the people doesn't know what the words are.
the "Bebsi" was on point lool
0:57 fun fact, this is not really Hebrew, at least not the modern version. This version of the alphabet is so outdated the that some of the letters are straight up unrecognizable.
For example:
The letter on most right of the first row is writted as א, the second as ב, and the second letter on the left of the second row is written as ש.
Still gotta give Sam props for being technically correct as this is Indeed an ancient version of Hebrew.
Well, arguably the ancient version of Hebrew is the real Hebrew. Modern Hebrew is a creole based on the original Hebrew.
I'm not sure describing it as an ancient form of Hebrew is entirely correct
More accurate would be to say that it isn't the common script of Hebrew, but a Hebrew typeface used mainly in religious books.
The "standard" Hebrew script has obviously been in use for thousands years, but there are books printed in this script until the present day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashi_script?wprov=sfla1
@@TaiFerret That is true of the grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of Modern versus ancient Hebrew, but not the Alphabet. The Modern Hebrew Alphabet is simply a newer typeface of the same alphabet. The letters in Rashi Script (00:57) map precisely to the Modern Hebrew script (00:47), which also map to ancient Aramaic, Phoenician and Paleo-Hebrew. Provided you change the typeface of any text written in Rashi Script to the modern Hebrew Script, they will be legible to Modern Hebrew speakers (though grammar, vocabular and idioms will be different).
@ملقرت ملك صور Zionist are Jews so.. stop bringing politics to this.
2:35 "founder of the Turkish Empire" wow, that's like three types of wrong.
1. He abolished the ottoman empire/caliphate
2. He founded the turkish republic
3. A turkish state, state for the turks/by/from the turkish people is inherently not an empire (a state with many nations/cultures within it)
I would reply to number 3 but I don't feel like opening that particular pandora's box
This video is completely wrong! Kurdish Latin alphabet is introduced several years later than Turkish alphabet. So how can banning these letters be related with Kurdish? This is video is just a manipulation!!!
The Turkish writing system changed just like how Turkey changed from being the centre of islam( literally the caliphate) to being a modern europeanised secular state . All hail ATTATURK , he has helped humanity a hell lot..
ataturk was a terrible fascist dictator, he is the reason why Kurds and Turks are fighting until today, he brainwashed all turks into racism and fascism
2:40 Lmao I'm Turkish and thats the best way I've seen someone describing Atatürk's appearance
I used to like this channel, interesting information etc. until the video is about something that i am an expert on and ooo boy %80 of the info is total made up just to be interesting, sad. - UNSUBSCRIBED
My man, thats All the videos
yeah I was like "finally a video on linguistics" and then I see the part about Russian
I remember when he didnt have sponsors every video
@@BatuhanDere cry med a river
Fun Facts: Serbian/Српски/Srpski is one of few languages that can be written in the Cyrillic (српска азбука/Вук С. Карџић (reformer)) and Latin (srpska abeceda/Gaj (Added Đ đ [dje])) scripts. And another thing, when we Serbians transcribe foreign names: cities, names of people, etc. we transcribe it with the Serbian azbuka/српска азбука, but when talking we have no problem saying sound of the letters like: W w (With В/V) , Y y (With Ј/J or И/I), Q q (With Ку/Ku or Кју/Kju), etc. And most of all, a big majority of us use the Latin script over the Cyrillic script, except in school (which I love) and in formal situations.
most interesting comment award!
They are no Q, W and X in Esperanto alphabet, and Ĉ, Ĝ, Ĥ, Ĵ, Ŝ, Ŭ are added.
Although "x" is used to write cx, gx, hx, jx, sx, ux, which are alternative for the aboves if you can't type them.
In theory the "w" sound can be only after a vowel, usually as aŭ, eŭ or oŭ, but the name of the letter Ŭ itself is "ŭo" and we use "ŭaŭ" for "wow" in Internet chatrooms.
Despite that we put V instead of W like in Russian, eg.: Wyoming is Vajomingo, Hollywood is Holivudo.
Kinda jokingly I use word "kavaja" from Japanese "kawaii".
The arabic thing in the thumbnail says ottomans tongue.
The word tongue is synonymous with language in Arabic.
Which is weird since turkish language isnt arabic XD
It's transliteration (the thumbnail) is "lasaan automaani", am I right?
@@vishalsyoutube yes
in Turkish “osmanlıca” or “osmanlı dili”
Every time I open TH-cam on my tv this video plays automatically. I don’t know how to stop it from playing. I’ve watched this like 15 times
Can we have more language videos? I really enjoyed this? Who agrees?
0:49 I love that Jab at Ted Cruz.
Fun fact: that McDonald's at 2:33 is in München, Germany
So interesting! Thank you for the educational and informative video.
1:46 finally that moment when your language gets attention
I genuinely had no idea my language was #15 lol
Some non-Arab regions that using Arabic Abjad like Malaysia, Brunei, parts of Indonesia, etc creates new letters from existing letters to represent sounds that only exists to Malayic community but not to Arab community. Yes there's no sound "P", "Ng", "Ny" in traditional Arabic but in Malay Arabic or Jawi or Pegon there's "ڤ", "ڠ", "ڽ" to represent such sound etc
putting the bird behind the Turkish flag, how funny and original... Now I understand the name half as interesting, half interesting for some interesting content here and there and the other half not interesting at all as its likely cringe guy butchering cultures and countries he clearly doesn't know about...
1:30 that would just be Arabic actually since the other Languages using Arabic script have a P sound and hence have an additional letter for P . پ
That one was added by the Persians(or for non Arabs in general) the same thing for ڨ ڥ چ پ
bepis
@@thedstorm8922 I specifically said that other languages have the پ letter and not Arabic
. Being a smartass isn't a good look when you haven't added anything. Just shows that you can't read .
So many Mistakes made in this video........
Not Empire its Republic. Turkish Republic.
Turks and Kurds live with peace expect for PKK which is UN recognized terrorist organisation which wants to Create their own Country on Turkish land (which will never happen) (Fight between PKK and Turkish government is still on going left more then thousands of death)
I was born Turkısh lived in Turkey about 10 - 15 years and I didn't even know that it was illegal to use it, even if you used it nobody would say anything. About the fines for Kurds for Nevruz basically when ever they celebrate Nevruz there is supporters of PKK (Which I mentioned above that is UN recognized terrorist organisation that kills innocent Turkish people) the fine is probably about that and honestly there is no need to use QXW in Turkish.
Sam all due respect, I love your channels watching them for years now but you mentioning Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Atatürk = Father of the Turks) is really in a disrespectful way that will and make Turkish people get really angry about it. (I also got really offended by it)
Do your research about Atatürk then you can start talking about it. Most of the things you said in your video was completely baseless or misleading.
(FYI Turkish Republic has only 1 official language and it's Turkish and I highly doubt (I know) that Turks ever spoke Arabic)
(Atatürk's vice-president, long time friend and comrade (as Americans say) İsmet İnönü was Kurdish and he was the second president in Turkey.
So hopefully in your next mistakes video we will see these mistakes to be corrected.
I don't know how large creators can speak so confidently on linguistics with no idea how to pronounce anything and repeating things like "they have no X sound because they have no letter for X." You'd hope that educational content with _half a million_ views would have better info than Wikipedia and common misconceptions
The BEST show on the internet. Keep cranking out the content; you have me laughing all the way through and damn if it doesn’t help these great facts stick.
Thanks for making my day! :)
There's actually some hidden propaganda in this video due to some misunderstandings. We weren't against Kurds, we just tried to save our language from foreigner pressures. Every nation has its right to save their language and the Letter Act is one of the best thing in this country. The people who could read&write increased from 10% to 90%. You can look up the internet if you want to learn more about Turkis Republic and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He was an amazing guy, you should definetely learn about him
@@Quantum_Beyblades if the Kurds are a minority (20% of the population, according to this video), then how could a minority threaten the language spoken by the majority of Turkey's citizens? That's like saying, in America, that because a few hundred thousand (or maybe even a few million) people in the Southwest speak the Navajo language, that the English language is "threatened." Ya'aani, your logic is a bit faulty mate.
@@MartianInDisguise The thing is, using several different languages in the same country would have a problem for being all together. There were many foreigner influences to seperate minorities from our country. Especially England and France, with many other countries wanted to seperate the country into regions and colonise the cities they wanted to like İzmir and Istanbul. They wanted to leave us just the worst region which is in the middle of Turkey. That's why language unity is very important for this country because many other country want to invade us. If we stay together we are stronger!
@@MartianInDisguise It is deeply related with our history. You can learn more about Turkey's history on the internet. Writing takes a lot of time.
@@Quantum_Beyblades Switzerland and Belgium seem to be doing just fine but okay.
You literally said Turkish Empire while Ataturk wished for a democratic nation 🗿💀💀
Me: "Oh nice! A HAI video about my country and the story of how it modernized!"
HAI: "Q was banned until recently..."
Me: "Oh no...."
Wait until they learn that even youtube was banned for a long long time.
@@ennd91 dude. Even fucking Wikipedia was banned. They know
In fact, letters such as q, w, x are not banned. If these letters are added while writing, the two different alphabets will be mixed together. For example, an English article says çocolate instead of chocolate, is it normal? You can use these letters if you started a company or hung a sign for a shop. because these letters exist in other languages and alphabets and Turkish is not compulsory for such transactions. So if you are writing in Turkish, you have to use the Turkish alphabet. If you are using another language, you can use the alphabet of that language, Arabic or Greek, it doesn't matter. But as you know, since the language of the country is Turkish, only one alphabet is used in official documents, other alphabets can be used elsewhere.
another anti turkish video funded by armenian lobby.I wish they made them less obvious lol😂
Well, why not
Crazy well edited 👌🏼
I JUST saw that q, x, and w are banned... and you said because racism.
I'm gonna assume this is anti-Kurdish, given their prominence in the language.
Yepp. Called it. I spent a lot of time in southern Kurdistan.
@@marcush4741 there arent only kurds in turkey. There are Laz people too, ataturk was so serious aboyt the turkish thing he switched everything to turkish. No one hates kurds here. In fact, kurd and turks fought side by side in the war of. independance. The idea of a "turkish state" is stupid.
actually arabic language does have vowels but not totally as a letters but rather as harakat
but we don't use only in Quran and some formal documents , and in few words that do need them to keep it's meaning
But Atatürk's long time friend in war and second president of the republic, İnönü, was kurdish
@Geralt of Pimpland he knew how to speak it
@Geralt of Pimpland He probably could and did privately. As a leader, he spoke the language of the country, Turkish
@Geralt of Pimpland Yes. Look up his family, his father was from the Kürümoğlu family, a wealthy and well known kurdish family at thag time.
He and Atatürk fought in wars together against the imperial forces, first for the ottoman empire, then for Turkey
"Non-copyright infringing muppet"
I'm pretty sure "muppet" is actually a copyright
It's a word.
It’s just a generic word, you muppet!
@@DrWhoFanJ it's not though. iirc, "muppet" was trademarked/copyrighted/registered or whatever by Disney
@@recentlydeleted “The Muppets”? Maybe.
The singular word “muppet”? Definitely not; it was a word long before Disney created their terrifying creatures of that name!
"Muppet" itself is a both a trademark and copyrighted term. Why not just say "puppet?" That's like saying I'm just a generic animated character, Homer Simpson©of the Fox Network (TM).
it was similar in Lithuania, which did not allow the use of w and other special characters needed to write Polish names
This is very logical. Famous Turkish doctor Mehmet Öz is written as Mehmet Oz in USA, because there is no letter "ö" in their alphabet. The same goes for Turkey. A person with a name like “âlxøqewœ” will need to adapt his name to the letters in the Turkish alphabet.
@@randomhuman5525 Even though both we, Poles, and they, Lithuanians, have the letter Ą in our alphabet, the Polish surname Dąbrowski will be written in official documents as Dombrovski
It must be tough not being able to owo and uwu in Turkey.
FURRY!!!
ovvo
uvvu
there are always alternatives
uğu
"learn the skill of paying my mortgage" 😂😂😂
Isn't even calling it a Muppet some sort of IP violation?
1:27-1:32 Which also explains why Aladeen from The Dictator pronounced Popeye as "Bobeye"