Is Turkish a European or an Asian language?

Answer 1

Yes, most of Turkey's population is Muslim. Islam is the main religion of the Turkish people according to the CIA World factbook which states that 99.8% of Turkey's population are nominal Muslims. Most Muslims in Turkey are Sunnis forming about 70-80%, and Alevis of the Shia-sect form about 20-30% of the Muslim population.

It is important to note that especially in the West and South of the country, the people are much less religious (similar to how people in Western Europe may identify as Christian, but are not terribly religious).

Answer 2

If we look at the history, they are not European locals. However they have been in Europe from about 375 A.D., Migration Period. This makes them as much European as it makes an anyone man who traveled to live in America in 18-19th century, American.

Answer 3

Most European Languages are from the Indo-European Language Tree. This makes it easy to say that Turkish is not a European Language as it is not Indo-European.

However, there is no homogenous general group of Asian languages. Asia is the most linguistically diverse continent in the world with numerous major trees, such as the Sino-Tibetan, Japanese, Austronesian, Austroasiatic, Tai-Kadai, Indo-European, Semitic, and Altaic.

Turkish is an Altaic language, but as Altaic languages represent less than 10% of the Asian population, is it really an Asian language?

Answer 4

It depends on who you ask. Some people include Turkey as part of the Middle East and others exclude them. They are certainly culturally distinct from other Middle Eastern peoples, like Arabs, Persians, Kurds, Jews, Copts, etc., than those groups are from each other, but they are much more similar to these groups than they are to Balkan peoples, Russians, or Europeans in general.

Answer 5

ofcourse . but our history . people in china,Japan,korea, claiming that ther are turkish race. for the fact, that NO they are not they are mongolians race . according to anthropology-science (Chinese-Japanese-Korean) its no possible to have a strong :Turkish ancestry . today majority of this asians are "Sinodonty mongoloids" the solid mongolian race the last 80 years according to"anthropology" majority of (Chinese-Japanese-Korean) are mongolian race . The generation " -----No asian people are not turkish or turkish ancestry ,but it depends on ther parents.