| ▲ | logicchains 3 hours ago | |
Kurdish is also Indo-European, but that doesn't stop Turks claiming it's just a dialect of Turkish (mountain Turkish). | ||
| ▲ | mda an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
Apart from a few idiots nobody claims it is Turkish dialect. There are some shared vocabulary, but thats pretty much it. Kurdish is much closer to Farsi. | ||
| ▲ | TFNA 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Instead of parsing "mountain Turkish" as "mountain+turkish", parse it as " mountain turk+ish". The use of the term "Mountain Turk" arose in the Atatürk era as a quick way to nip any discussions of those ethnic minorities in the bud. That is all the term serves for. It doesn't mean that Turks believe Kurds actually speak a language genetically related to their own. | ||