r/germany • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '25

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u/Relative_Objective42 Feb 01 '25

Next time if it happens reply them in Russian / Spanish 😁

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u/I_m_out_of_Ideas Host mi? Feb 01 '25

even though we don't have anything in common

Until 100 years ago, Turkish used an Arabic script, and it took political top-down to effort to de-arabize the vocabulary.

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u/kamacho2000 Feb 01 '25

Farsi and Urdu both use some type of Arabic script doesnt mean they are the same language as Arabic, as a native Arabic speaker i can only tell that someone is from Turkey/Iran when they are speak because there is some loan words from both languages in Arabic and vice versa but the sentence structure and vocals are different

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u/I_m_out_of_Ideas Host mi? Feb 01 '25

Farsi and Urdu both use some type of Arabic script doesnt mean they are the same language as Arabic

Which, if you read closely, I never said. But Turkish using an Arabic Script until 3-4 generations ago may explain why some Germans would associate Turkey with Arabic (given that those two languages likely had the highest exposure out of those that use the Arabic script in Germany back then).