So That's Why the Turkish Speak English So Well...

[Scunner]

English language 'originated in Turkey'

Modern Indo-European languages - which include English - originated in Turkey about 9,000 years ago, researchers say. The Anatolia hypothesis - first proposed in the late 1980s by Prof Colin Renfrew (now Lord Renfrew) - suggests an origin in the Anatolian region of Turkey about 3,000 years earlier.

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[Colwyn]

And why the English speak Turkish so well?

[Scunner]

Evet.

[usedbustickets]

Might stand up as a good idea, other than the fact that the Turkish 'race' was still residing in Central Asia at that time, and probably hadn't even heard of Anatolia let alone invaded it yet!!

[Scunner]

Yes UBT but Anatolia was there at that time and that is part of Turkey today. So the theory that English originated in Turkey is not the same as English originated from the Turks.

[Colwyn]

It was one of Ataturk's pet theories, on which a set of Turkish linguistic scholars were set to work, that Turkish was in fact the founder language of Indo-European group. This, or so he claimed, was why Turkish contained so many words that are shared with French, German, English, Arabic, Persian, and so on. They all copied from Turkish!