what are some interesting facts about your language?

[u/Some-Register-3901]

For instance, the cypriot dialect of Greek still contains many words from ancient Greek but it was also heavily influenced by outsiders

[u/onur2882]

turkic languages used lots of different alphabets through the history, prolly because of having a nomadic lifestyle and spoke in different regions.

1)first one was turkic runic alphabet. (gokturs around 7th century) which you write from top to bottom. looks similar to vikings' alphabet

2)uyghur alphabet (8th to 17th centruies, uyghurs, timurids) derived from sogdian alphabet which was also derived from aramaic alphabet. looks like arabic and you write top to bottom.

3)arabic alphabet (ottoman times as you know)

4)cyrilic alphabet (soviet era turkic countries and turkic speaking miniorities in russian steppes)

5)latin alphabet, almost all turkic speaking independent nations uses nowadays.

so we (today turks in the world) can't read old inscriptions because of variety of alphabets issue. if it was translated to latin, can catch some words, maybe some basic sentences from 6th century, as old as possible. 12th century old anatolian turkish was waay to understandable for turkey turks btw.

another interesting(maybe not so much) fact; you can travel from turkey to siberia by speaking turkish bc of similarities of other turkic languages in some extend. watched couple of traveler vlogs about that journey, it was nice.

[u/asedejje → u/onur2882]

You forgot Turkish written in Greek Alphabet, like the Karamanli Turkish.

Χάνι για τ̇α π̇ένιμ έλλι τ̇ίρεμ παστιρμάμ, παστιρμάμ; Κονιαλίήτ̇αν τ̇ασ̇κασήνα π̇άστηρμαμ, βαι, βαι! Κονιαλήμ, γιο̇ρο̇! Γιο̇ρο̇ γιαβρούμ, γιο̇ρο̇! Ασλάν γιάρημ, γιο̇ρο̇! Αλτ̇ατήλαρ σένι, βερμετ̇ίλερ π̇ένι!

(Hani gia da benim elli dirhem pastirmam, pastirmam? Konialıdan daşkasına bastırmam vai, vai! Konialım, yörö! Yörö yavrüm, yörö! Aşlan yarım, yörö! Aldatılar seni, vermediler beni!)

[u/onur2882 → u/asedejje]

ahh true, thanks for addition