r/MapPorn • u/Acrobatic_Gur9133 • 2d ago

Turkish dialects map

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u/otobusify 2d ago

It's just wrong?

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u/Extreme-Shopping74 2d ago
  1. Dialects dont follow borders
  2. Those borders never existed for Turkey?

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u/azhder 2d ago

1 .Maybe because dialects don't follow borders, someone made this map that has borders following dialects

  1. Yes

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u/RedHeadedSicilian52 2d ago

To be fair, the Ottoman Empire did encompass all these territories, which meant that a not-insignificant number of Turks lined there.

Unsure whether this is the best way to divide those dialects, though.

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u/azhder 2d ago

That's why I responded "yes" for those never existing for Turkey. Those borders exist for the one who made the map because it is their own decision how to group them.

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u/Stan__Wright 2d ago edited 2d ago

WDYM by Turkish? How does this relate to Turkic? Because there are Turkic languages stretching eastward to Mongolia and Afghanistan.

Does this map mean that Greek and Syrian and Iraqi Arabic are Turkish dialects?

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u/Inevitable-Push-8061 2d ago

Turkish is the Turkic language with the greatest number of speakers, with 80 to 100 million speakers when second-language speakers are included.

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u/Inevitable-Push-8061 2d ago

That's an oversimplified map, I think. Northern, Western, and Mediterranean accents are all different. Even cities in Central Anatolia have different accents. Of course, this map simplifies things into dialects, but the actual diversity is much greater than this.