Türükçä

Türükçä is a Turkic constructed language, based on the grammar and vocabulary of living Turkic languages. Due to the fact that it is based on natural languages, the very essence of it will be very natural. It will be developped until it turns to be a perfected auxilliary language facilitating mutual understanding among almost all Turkic peoples. To achieve this aim, Türükçä will make extensive use of commonalities among living and if needed dead Turkic languages in order to lay groundwork for establishing a common language for all Turkic peoples. Three groups of Turkic languages, Oghuz, Qarluq and Qipchaq are sources to feed the existence of this auxilliary language. The language may take years to develop, but it will be perfected to the utmost. To have an idea about what will make it speacial and what will make it recognized and possibly accepted as an auxilliary language, one must consider three Turkic language groups, Oghuz, Qypchaq and Qarluq together, and all expressive capabilities of the three combined. If process of perfection matures, 150 to 180 million Turkic people have access to a Turkic language that binds them all.

Phonotactics
Türükçä is an almost phonetic language, that is read as it is written. Each letter corresponds to either a consonant or a vowel and they are pronunced identically to the sound they represent.

Türükçä sounds follow some phonotactical patterns that are never changeable.

The very first rule to remember is that no native word in Türükçä can start with c, f, j, ğ, l, m, ñ, r, z and n which is an exception. Türükçä native word for question word "what" (Nemä) which is the only exception that starts with an "n" is a remnant of pre-Turkic Altaic language.

Secondly, no native word starts with two consonants side by side.

It is also a strict rule that n and b cannot be written side by side within a word except compound words or proper names.

Other than the most initial rules described above, most influential rule for Türükçä is its vowel harmony.

Vowel harmony is one of the most fundamental and important aspects of Türükçä grammar. Türükçä words definitely obey vowel harmony rule, even if root words are of foreign origin. More important than the words obeying this rule, there are ways this rule changes the vowels in the suffixes added to words. A good understanding of this rule is necessary to be able to use suffixes, hence to be able to make correct and meaningful sentences. The 9 vowels in the Türükçä alphabet are separated into two groups called back vowels and front vowels. There are 4 back vowels and 5 front vowels. Back vowels: a, ı, o, u Front vowels: ä, e, i, ö, ü Words of Türükçä origin definitely (always) have all back or all front vowels. This is the generalization that you will use for constructing Türükçä words and sentences. Words that back hard and front vowels together are said to violate the vowel harmony. A word that violates the major vowel harmony probably has been adopted from another language. A Türükçä word is either a back word or a front word depending on its last vowel. öy [house] is a front word since its last and only vowel, ö, is a front vowel. otun [firewood] is a back word since its last vowel, u, is a back vowel. bağçä [garden] which is a Persian loan is a front word since its last vowel, ä, is a front vowel. Türükçä vowel harmony states that: -Any suffix appended to a back word must have back vowels -Any suffix appended to a front word must have front vowels The only plural suffix in Türükçä is -lar and it is modified according to the last vowel of the word to which it is attached. It turns to be a -lär if the last vowel of the word to which it is attached is a front vowel, otherwise it remains its back vowel form. In accordance with the vowel harmony rule, plurals of öy, otun and bağçä becomes öylär (houses), otunlar ( firewoods) and bağçälär (gardens). For further explanations and details showing how to apply this rule, see grammar section.