Why does Turkish have so many Arabic?

With religious ties to the Arab Muslims, a great cultural exchange began and the Turks adopted many Arabic, but also Persian loan-words into their language. Many Persian and Arabic loan-words were replaced with either historical Turkic words or words of European origin.

What percentage of Turkish is Arabic?

Arabic is spoken by 1.2\% of the Turkish population; most of those speakers are bilingual Arabic and Turkish speakers. Other minority languages include Circassian, spoken by more than 0.09\% throughout the country, Greek, Armenian and Judezmo, a Romance language spoken by Jews.

What is the difference between old and modern Turkish?

Modern Turkish is the descendant of Ottoman Turkish and its predecessor, so-called Old Anatolian Turkish, which was introduced into Anatolia by the Seljuq Turks in the late 11th century ce. Old Turkish gradually absorbed a great many Arabic and Persian words and even grammatical forms and was written in Arabic script.

What is the origin of the Turkish language?

Old Turkish gradually absorbed a great many Arabic and Persian words and even grammatical forms and was written in Arabic script. After the founding of the Turkish republic in 1923, the Arabic script was replaced by the Latin alphabet (1928). The reform of the language was initiated and supported by the Turkish republican government.

What is the difference between Arabic coffee and Turkish coffee?

In Arabic coffee, there is cardamom and sometimes other ingredients (saffron, ginger, flowers, etc) added. But, in Turkish coffee it is just finely ground coffee. In Arabic coffee, you almost never add sugar in the beginning while in Turkish coffee, if you want it sweet, you mix sugar and coffee in water.

What are the distinctive characteristics of the Turkish language?

The distinctive characteristics of the Turkish language are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination.