Similarities Between Russian and Turkish

In today's episode, we will be doing Russian and Turkish, with Sasha, a Russian speaker from Orenburg, Russia, and Şimal, a Turkish speaker from Antalya, Turkey challenging each other with a list of words and sentences. If you have any suggestions for us, or if you live in the city of Toronto, speak a language that has not been featured on our channel, and would like to participate in a future video, please contact us on Instagram:
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Bahador (@BahadorAlast): BahadorAlast
The Turkish language (Türkçe), which is also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with most of its native speakers living in #Turkey and other parts of Western Asia, and significant group of speakers in Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Ottoman Turkish, which was a variation of the Turkish spoken today, influenced many parts of Europe during the time that the Ottoman Empire expanded. When the modern Turkish republic was established, one of Atatürk's Reforms consisted of changing the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with a Latin alphabet. Today, Turkish is recognized as a minority language in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Macedonia, and Romania.
Russian is an East Slavic language and an official language in #Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and many minor or unrecognized territories. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine and to a lesser extent, the other post-Soviet states.
Orenburg is located on the Ural River, close to the border with Kazakhstan. Historically speaking, in the early part of the 20th century, Orenburg was the capital of the Kirghiz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which is now part of the present-day Kazakhstan. In 1925, Orenburg became part of Russia.
Antalya is the largest Turkish city on the Mediterranean coast with a very rich history. It is also a major tourism hub, being Turkey's largest international sea resort.

[euAndrei]

I absolutely love this channel! It inspired me to create my own where I focus on the individual stories of each person. Thanks Bahador for the great work you do!

[Deleted 1212]

The chick with pink hair on your channel is really hot! Is she single?

[Janelle Choi]

love the video with the Romanian girl! you have yourself a new subscriber :)

[Thisisforgooglemaps E]

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[Umar]

You should invite Kimon, he will have so much interesting stuff to say

[Türk]

euAndrei ❤️

[Armstrong]

Imagine Erdogan Rouhani and Putin playing this game. 😂

[Bahador Alast]

LOL 😂

[AGAH ERDEM]

megalul

[Arda]

Hahahaha 😁

[SCHUCK]

I'm German I grew up among Russians and Turks!!! I love Russia and Turkey!

[Türk]

OBSERVER Thanks We love you too , Loves from Turkey, İstanbul 💕🤗

[Berk Çandar]

We love you too!!

[Kultegin ᛏᚢᚱᚲ]

Greetings from Kazakhstan.

[Türk]

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz Love Poland from Turkey ❤️

[Simply channel]

Over 700 000 Germans live in Russia

[Pualam Nusantara]

I love how you put the historical etymology for each word. Keep up the great work!

[Razvan M]

Yes, puting the etymology was a great idea.

[Viral Videos]

I’m from Kazakhstan. I speak kazakh, russian, turkish and english. It’s really weird when those universes of different languages connect. It’s absolutely how I think in my mind😂😂😂 seems like 3 parts of me are talking to each other😂 but you needed some kazakh guys to participate. It would be really cool😍🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿 since a lot of kazakh people speak russian and understand turkish.☺️🇰🇿🇹🇷🇷🇺

[Taha K.]

Can Kazakh speakers understand Turkish?

[It's okay Joye]

@Taha K. yes, to some extend, if with no training. With little practice, it becomes easy

[Music for Hours]

aman bolın kazakh baurlar

[G G]

As they both Turkic...

[Cosmin Rusea]

I'm from Romania and I could understand both turkish and russian words. I like this channel because you focus on similaritys between cultures and I believe this is the way we can better understand eachother. Love from Romania ❤️🇷🇴

[Lifeisasecret2250 -]

Greetings from Poland to Turkey and Russia. ♥️ So many words that we have in common.

[Cristian Onet]

I love how many of these words are also found in Romanian, our language has so many loanwords xD I'm trying to study both so this video is definitely intriguing 🤗🇷🇴💞🇷🇺💞🇹🇷

[Ada Yavuz]

Cristi_ Energy Good luck from Turkey! One thing to know is that we all share a letter that is uncommon. î (or â) in Romanian, ы in Russian, and ı in Turkish. :) 🇷🇴🇹🇷♥️

[Cristian Onet]

@Ada Yavuz Yes, exactly, also we both have ș, which I think you borrowed from us since we used the Latin script before you 😅 I found some Turkish words in Romanian while learning, like: Tamam = taman (not very used) Portokal = portocală (portocal means orange tree btw ) Kahve = cafea Gazete = gazetă (From French) Maymun = maimuță 0.7% of Romanian vocabulary has Turkish words, also Turkish has a lot of Latin words, but not from Romanian, we're too insignificant :D

[Cristian Onet]

@Ada Yavuz Oh, ve teşekkür ederim ! 🤗

[Ada Yavuz]

Cristi_ Energy Oh yes! We also have ş and ç (if I'm not mistaken ç makes ci in Romanian). I believe that we borrowed it from the French as during the Ottoman time, French was considered as a high class language. But you may right too. 😂 How is the learning going so far? Is it easy?

[Cristian Onet]

@Ada Yavuz Well yes, we have the ç sound when c has an e or an i next to it, but I think it's the same in Turkish though ! Are you studying Romanian by the way ? You know things about Romanian that not many people do, which is fantastic 👍🏻Turkish is a bit hard because it gives me a new way of thinking, rearranging words in a sentence, new vocabulary with some other influences and many suffixes 😅 At the end of the day, Turkish isn't a very melodic or romantic language, somewhat hard to pronounce, but it definitely has a solemn and strong note, and I love the ö and ü sounds, I don't have them in my language and it's so funny to pronounce them 😁❤ If you want to, you can also follow me on Instagram, I don't mind having more Turkish friends :)

[Zoltan Hoppar]

I really love the linguistic notes under the video, and explains the path how the word has ended in the other language.

[Andrij]

In Ukrainian language are even more words borrowed from Turkic-Tatar languages : Maydan,tyutyun,kave, chay,Garbuz,Kilim,Kishmish,otara,tuman,shtani,karii,bashlyk,bunchuk,dzhura,kanchuk,opancha,osavul,Sagaydak,Yasir,,Baylik,bichak,garam,kavuk,bulat,haralug,zhenchug,kozak,kurgan,zhatro,chaga,saray,bazar,chardak,bugay,losha,gayda,liman,kish,tabir,sharavari,chumak,kobza,gaydamaka,vizir,divan,kalim,terlyk and many more. Also a region in Ukraine called Budzhak is a turkic word.

[Serg Narly]

It very good information, for act of forming ideas

[Somuchsecrets]

ukrainian is just a dialect of Russian

[Andrij]

@Somuchsecrets no. So called Russian is just a Mongol dialect of Ukrainian language. Ukraine is the successor state of Kyivan Rus where Old Church Slavonic was spoken which is similar to Ukrainian and Belorussian languages.No surprise why Ukrainian and Belorussian have more in common than with Russian.

[Elac Teubusht]

Kevin Tatar was Turco+Mongol Etnic

[Ron Worthy]

That's so interesting to see this as a Kazakh person. I'm Kazakh and I'm from Kazakhstan. I speak Russian for the most part. I don't speak Kazakh often but Kazakh is a Turkich language which means it's kind of similar to Turkish and I'm familiar with all the words that were shown in the video haha!

[Oğuzhan TÜRK]

Because our languages have same root, Turkic languages. Bizdiñ tili birdey, bizim dilimiz birdir. :)

[Ada Yavuz]

Ron Worthy Салем to Kazakhstan from Turkey! 🇰🇿🇹🇷♥️

[İlker Yılmaz]

"My language is my flag" M.Akif Ersoy. (writer of Turkey's national anthem)

[SCHUCK]

@Turkish Turk Because Kazakhstan was a colony of Russia !!! All Turks except Turks were ruled by Russians! In Kazakhstan speak 2 languages kazakh and russian!!!! I'am German, I lived in Kazakhstan I can speak russian,german,russian

[Is thats Kk]

Ron Worthy Hmm Kazakh turkish is a kichapi turkish dialect, generally it’s really hard for a general turkish man to understand kazak worfs

[Alperen Temiz]

Turkish and Japanese or Korean would be interesting too. You wouldn't believe how close they are in grammar. I don't know if there are similar words but I guess they have since Gokturks and Goguryeo were allies against Chinese they probably borrow some words from each other. Like 'su' means 'water' both in Turkish and old Korean (dk if its still in use) and another word I know is Pumpkin which is Kabak in Turkish and Hobag in Korean.

[aonairskies]

Agreed

[bayandromeda]

👍🏻👍🏻

[Nurcan Karakoc]

I don't really see similarities between Turkish and Japanese. Grammar yes, words not really. Maybe good: 'ii' (yoi) in Japanese and Turkish 'iyi'. Or Water: mizu but as for the Chinese reading 'sui' and in Turkish 'su'. What I also noticed are Japanese words sounds similar or is written the same in Turkish but have another meaning

[Alperen Temiz]

​@Nurcan Karakoc as I said I don't know any similar words but they kinda sound similar sometimes probably because of the grammar and how they pronounce the letters

[İsim bulamadım o beni bulsun]

Only grammers are same and korean has tons of english words

[PabloGaming2456]

Greetings to my Russian and Turkish friends❤️❤️❤️ In Polish we say : Arbuz - Watermelon ✔️ Czapka - Hat✔️ Skrzynia - Chest ✖️ Cherry - Wiśnia✔️ Dywan - Well it means carpet not sofa for some reason.... ✔️/✖️ Orzech - Nut✖️ Król - King✔️ Reklama - Advertisement✔️ Gazeta - Newspaper✔️ Papuga - Parrot✔️ Ekran - Screen✔️ Cukier - Sugar✔️ Herbata - Tea✖️ Bakłażan - Eggplant✔️ Most of words are identical

[anExtraordinarilyUbiquitousGatewayToEtherealRealms]

Well, "orzech", or "orech", with the "o" sounding closer to "a", means nut in Russian as well, in this case they were discussing a special kind of nut - hazelnut.

[Yakov]

Aren't Perun one of the major Gods in Slavic mythology? xd

[anExtraordinarilyUbiquitousGatewayToEtherealRealms]

@Yakov He was. And?

[xanthe]

Watermelon=Karpuz in Turkish. Very smiliar

[11_Soham Vaidya]

In my native language (Marathi) the word for watermelon is Tarbuz...

[Ivan Podraza]

I really like that you included the description of the origin of the words in the video, and also the info about the cities from which the participants come. As a Croatian native speaker, I understood almost all the words in the video. :)

[Dyna A]

Can u do simimarities between turkish and other turkic languages, Such as tatar,uzbek,kazakh,uyghur or kyrgiz languages? It would be really interesting to see the similarities. Maybe its hard to find them in Toronto but that is what I think will make an interesting language comparison.Anyway, this is a very informative video! The turkish girl is pretty

[Qwertyuiop0192]

to easy. and this comes from my own experience. but i would also appreciate a video with those languages.

[angeryybirb]

it’s meaningles since there are tons of similarities. uzbek and turkish would be just like french and spanish. not surprising at all

[Kopfertami Noramol]

@angeryybirb Turkic languages are very similar to each other more than spanish-french or romanian-italian .

[Dyna A]

Kopfertami Noramol nah. Kazakh and turkish are not that intelligible unless they learn the language personally. Different branches fron the same language family.

[Qwertyuiop0192]

@Dyna A NOPE. You're wrong I know both languages. Kazakh and Turkish are pretty close. I didn't even try hard while learning the vocabulary is veeery similar.

[Ja Far]

as an Azerbaijani i know both languages, thanks for video, like and subscribe, hello to turkish and russian friends from Baku❤

[Maayan Haza]

Excellent video Bahador and team. Really nice that you have explained the root of the words! Wow, some were so interesting and reveal some great deal of history this way. Love and greetings to Turkey and Russia from Israel! I have many great friends from both amazing nations :)

[SA NODE cardiac]

I had seen seen your comments somewhere else..i think on the video where muslim were feeding the homeless

[Maayan Haza]

@SA NODE cardiac It is very much possible. Whenever I see people helping the poor and needy it warms my heart

[SA NODE cardiac]

Yup helping some1 always make you satisfied with your life...

[IVAN THE TEA 1991]

Hello from Russia too 🙏🏻

[Odaenathus]

@Maayan Haza You can help millions of peope who live under brutal military occupation with your “big heart”.

[MrUlesus]

Im Kyrgyz and speak my own language which is Turkik group.Therefore i can understand Turkish and any other Turkik lingo. Also i speak Russian because we were under Soviet Union. When i hear Ukrainian ,Romanian i can unerstand few words which are similar to both Russian and Kyrgyz. Also i heard Mongols speaking and could understand few words as well.(expl:BALTA (Axe) ) same meaning in Mongol,Kyrgyz,Turkish,Romanian etc) Under Golden Horde paperwork and official words were in Turkik language ,therefore i can guess many words settled in Russian language through Hordes.Not Turkey. Russ:Ochag,dengi,tomojnya,arbuz etc,almaz,kolbasa(Kulbashty(chuchuk))bagatyr,kefir etc. And BTW even in English you have few words taken from Turkik language (Because Ottomans were rulers of Islamic world which traded with western countries) Ex. Bergamot,caviar,yogurt,horde. Also deeper in a root its part of Altaic languages ,which includes even Korea and Japanese. TURAN !!!

[Music for Hours]

aman bolın. TURAN

[Physicist-1944]

The altaic language family theory is not very much credited nowadays

[Tahmina Holman]

ayyee didn’t expect to see something that but i’m glad cuz i’m half kyrgyz 😄

[nicolesenpai]

Just discovered this channel and immediately subscribed~ it's so great!! Over the years, I've learned Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) --each to varying levels, of course. Recently, I've picked up some Turkish! This channel motivates me so much to keep learning, but also makes me feel like I could somehow learn all the languages hahaha. I love hearing all these similarities and reading about the root origins 😊

[Bahador Alast]

❤❤❤

[Kinus Ganyani]

I like the fact that you guys added the etymological origins of the words in the descriptions at the bottom of the video and how you edit your videos so that it would get to the point faster and keep the conversation flowing

[Kinus Ganyani]

Oh, apparently, I'm not the only one that appreciates the new feature, after reading the comments

[Khan Lakhno]

*I actually like the word "Saray" the most :D In Turkish it means palace, but in Russian it means barn or some sort of a shed*

[samanli1982]

Isn’t it an Arabic word?

[Hu man]

@samanli1982 No, Persian

[Smoking Q]

We Turks call it Saray, so thats turkish

[kaya cenk]

@Smoking Q olm iranlılara göre herşey irandan gelme bilmiyormusun bunu :D geçen kangala da sahip çıkıyorlardı

[The Blue Hawk]

I recently got interested in Turkish and was happy to find that they have a sound similar to Ы which means I can pronounce turkish words better than others

[Türk]

BlueHawkPictures Same im learning Russian its pretty easy for me 😊

[Ada Yavuz]

BlueHawkPictures I was shocked that Russian had ı (ы) as well haha

[Ada Yavuz]

Serious Damage! Must be nice because as a Turkish speaker, it is hard for me to pronounce many words in Polish with rz, cz, and sz. But I'm glad that you don't have a problem with Turkish since it's a challenging language :)

[Ada Yavuz]

Serious Damage! I don't know if the Turkish letters are simple for you (it was actually made for it to be easy to learn) but the Polish alphabet is really confusing! :D Too many letters that make similar sounds but that is the beauty of the Polish language. :)

[Roberto Francisco Monsalves Pavez]

Bahador, you really have the ability to always find such nice people to take part un your videos. As usual, I enjoyed this a lot. Thanks for teaching the art of good conversation.

[Ayaiix]

2:37 divan is also a french word you can use. Its crazy how from a language to another you can learn easily !

[Szilvia Papp]

Hungarian language has also similarities : sapka, dívány, reklám, papagáj, cukor, király, padlizsán 😊

[BABALIK]

Hajra Turan 🐺

[Xochiltepetzala Ilhuicamina]

Great vid. Especially liked the etymological explanations in texts. Russian probably has more Turkish origin words especially with influence from Crimean tatars, tataristan, former khazarian khaganate, Altai region and the former USSR west turkistan republics of Kyrgyzstan. Kazahkstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and probably some Persian influence from republic of Tajikistan....

[It's okay Joye]

you're absolutely right!

[viper]

you also forgot holden horde

[a i]

@viper Golden Horde yess

[angeryybirb]

thanks for etymological explanations! i didn’t know that gazete is venetian very surprising!

[Gulfira Alim]

I speak Uyghur, it’s a branch of Turkic, and it’s so fun to watch all these videos, so much similarities!!!

[OLуХПК]

not Turkish, but Turkic

[SHOSH Uz]

Uzbek is closest language to Uighur, isn't it?

[Ay Yildiz]

@SHOSH Uz i also learned uyghur. its easy for turks.

[Ay Yildiz]

i also learned uyghur. its easy for turks.

[SHOSH Uz]

@Ay Yildiz, as for us, we don't even need to learn.

[asocanaso🎗]

Never relaized languages that sound so far from each other can be so alike!! As a turkish person, im interested in learning new languages all the time and i think im gonna add russian to my list :D i was afraid of the idea of learning it at first but im suddenly eager lol Love the vid

[Richard Schmitz]

Sometimes politics makes me angry about certain countries. But when i watch your channel, it remembers me how much we all have in common and that we are all family of human beeings. I think that there are many people from different countries, with different views who feel the same. To be cosmopolitan makes the world for us all a better place.

[KingAce 442]

I have the same opinion as you love from Ukraine.

[Mahir Haxhiu]

Wow! This video was really well done, explaining the roots in cases where the languages are not in the same family was really interesting. Thank you for doing this!

[Gün ARSLANYIKAR]

Again an excellent and lovely video, thanks Bahador. One interesting thing is that, although some words in Russian are Turkic origin, we use different words for them in modern Turkish . For example "карандаш/Karandaş" means pencil in Russian. When the word is divided into two pieces, "кара/Kara" means black and "даш/daş or taş" means stone in Turkish, as you guess black stone symbolizes coal simply. However in modern Turkish we use "kalem" for pencil which is derived from Arabic. Another example is "Китай/Kitay" which means China in Russian. Old Turkic people and Mongols used this word for China. Today our pitiful Uighurs continue to use it. However, in modern Turkish the word "Çin" is used for China. Love and greetings. Selamlar, sevgiler...

[yorgunsamuray]

I had heard that карандаш came from Caran d'Ache, a French stationary brand which brought the first pencils to Russia and the brand had become the product name (similar Xerox meaning photocopier in US and Selpak meaning paper tissue in Turkey)

[Gün ARSLANYIKAR]

@yorgunsamuray No just the opposite. Caran d'Ache is a nick name for Russian / French illustrator whose name is Emmanuel Poire. French stationary company chose this brand name because of Poire. You can read full story here: www.britannica.com/biography/Caran-dAche

[Mertol Göksoy]

It's becoming an addiction for me to watch your videos, even with languages that I hardly know. Like Manx and Irıish that I watched today. By the way, a criticism: since the people are very young, they don't know the old words specially when Turkish and Arabic and Turkish and Persian are compared . In fact this is the case with other Turkic languages too.

[Eleştiren İnsan Yılmaz]

Bravo lan Bahadır! :) Dünyadaki, Türk kızı algısı ve Rus kızı algısını yerle yeksan ediyorsunuz bu videolarla xD xD

[Armen Vanian]

xD

[Armen Vanian]

koptum resmenb

[Bahadır Sarıtaş]

sesli güldüm

[ElvenArcher]

hakkaten lan... hiç öyle bakmamıştım bak. wtf.

[Aamna Here]

We say Tarbooz and Sandook in Urdu as well. The word for sugar is interesting in Russian because in Urdu we say, Shakar. Cahi is tea in Urdu as well. You learn so much we these videos. The similarities are truly amazing.

[Bahador Alast]

Hope you guys enjoy this episode! As I mentioned in our recent vlog, since many people have asked, I finished my parental leave recently and I am back at work again which is why we have changed our weekly upload schedule to once every 2 weeks. Thanks for understanding! If you have any suggestions for us, or if you live in the city of Toronto, speak a language that has not been featured on our channel, and would like to participate in a future video, please contact myself or my wife on Instagram: Shahrzad (@shahrzad.pe): instagram.com/shahrzad.pe Bahador (@BahadorAlast): instagram.com/BahadorAlast

[Median Empire]

Bahador Alast bro Kurdish vs armenian or Kurdish vs hindi

[Nur Shaiakhmetov]

There are several parts from Russia (Tatarstan, Bashkortostan) where people use their languages that so similiar to turkish.

[NO NAME]

Please make video about similarities between Turkish and Uzbek languages

[Yana Romanova]

So sad( me speaking on Russian,Turkish,Ukrainian,Polska ,idish languages, but I don’t live in Toronto:(

[Yana Romanova]

Nur Shaiakhmetov and Kazakhstan :)

[mick nabel]

I'm from Azerbaijan, we speak both languages and I never realized that there were any similarities

[Satya Kothapalli]

I am from India , I can speak Russian fluently , now started loving Turkey , Turkish people and Turkish language Had fun watching the video

[faROCK03]

Interesting as always, and love the new root of the words in the video! As a note, parrot in Arabic is babagha, so kind of similar! Btw, now that you're doing the root thing, you should check out nisanyansozluk. Really helpful and detailed for the etymology of Turkish words. The most well regarded source too!

[Agnieszka Dul]

Similarities between Russian, Turkish and Polish 1. Watermelon, in Turkish karpuz, in Russian arbuz, in Polish arbuz. 2. Hat, sapka, shapka, in Polish - czapka. 3. Cherry, visne, vishnya, in Polish - wiśnia. 4. King, kral, korol, in Polish - król. 5. Advertisement, reklam, reklama, in Polish - reklama. 6. Newspaper, gazete, gazeta, in Polish - gazeta. 7. Parrot, papagan, popugay, in Polish - papuga. 8. Screen, ekran, ekran, in Polish - ekran. 9. Eggplant, patlican, baklazhan, in Polish - bakłażan. and we have a word in Polish "dywan" but this word in Polish means carpet. Greetings from Poland 😘

[Headmistress GGPS Pathanwala]

Watermelon in urdu tarbooz

[IVAN THE TEA 1991]

Любопытно, внушительный список 😮

[Dymytry Ruban]

Another Russian word similar to karpuz is "карапуз". A synonym to wieża is "baszta". Other Turkic words in Polish: borsuk, taran, baran, kontusz, szarańcza, bałwan.

[El Turco Loco]

Love Polska from Turkey

[Mirhayotjon Komilov]

These are all Slavic words

[Eliran]

i am really amazed that you also started to show the history behind each word, i think that knowing this is really complex.

[Salutta 11]

I love both 🇹🇷🇷🇺

[Cuauhtémoc Raramuri]

May I suggest Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian? Loving your videos!! Salaam from Mexico

[e1gr3co]

it could be interesting how stable is the finno-ugric theory in real

[Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Augustus]

I think it would be very hard for Hungarian speakers to understand or be understood by Finnish and Estonian speakers…and vice versa of course!

[Оля Июньская]

This channel is awesome! Thank you very, very much! It's like the best way to make people love and respect all the nations, languages and traditions. You do a very good job!

[Ana Setrakian]

This was amazing guys! Not only funny but very educational. The only thing is I got a bit nostalgic, I was reminded of the Armenian/Turkish video for some reason and how sad I became when it was removed. Sigh!! All the power to you and what you do Bahador! Thank you!

[rdtgr8]

Actually in Russian (and other Slavic languages) word order may be any. For example, her sentence "Na obied ja sjela baklažan" may be transformed into "Ja na obied baklažan sjela" (literally: "I on (my) lunch an eggplant have eaten") which sounds still ok in Russian and corresponds to SOV order which is typical for Persian and Turkish. This is because Slavic languages kept inflections (which existed in Avestan, Sanskrit and Latin) which exactly identify what is subject and what is object in the sentence and you don't need make your word order fixed to determine them. However, probably under West European languages influence the preferred word order in Russian is set to SVO (like in English) and usualy most of sentences in speach have SVO. But even in everyday speach you may hear many sentences which are built using other word orders and it doesn't surprise anyone.

[Erdinç Çiftçi]

In Turkish, although the standard order is SOV, you can do the same as you described for Russian. It can be, VSO, OSV, etc and we don't care much about different orders especially in daily language.

[Y.]

Thats important to show the similarities than differences all the time. Peace in the country peace in the world

[Şevket Coşkun]

What a beautiful video. Thank you guys for doing this.

[Renzo Gualberto]

“Попугай” 🦜 is also similiar with the portuguese word for parrot, “papagaio”. Anyway, very interesting video!

[e1gr3co]

maybe portuguese mariners saw parrots first as europeans...

[All things classy]

Once again, a great video. I feel that you've also learned A LOT as well by making these videos :) Your knowledge about languages is impressive, Bahador. For someone like me who's studying Applied Linguistics, this is extremely informative and helpful. Thanks a lot

[Alpay Sedat Durukan]

I loved how you put where the words are derived from. Very informative! Also very hard to guess parrot and sugar in Turkish. I couldn't do it lol. Congratz Şimal ✔️

[Joseph Taibeh]

I like that you've added a commentary to explain where the words come from :) Many of these words are similar in Arabic!

[MrPopular22]

In the telephone sentence if you think a little bit, you could understand the whole meaning as a russian. There is a word called "kirdik (second "i" is spoken like the turkish i without dot)" which means something like "the end" or "it`s over", and could also be understand as "broken" - depending on how you use it. It is more of a slang word, but every russian should know it. It probably derives from the same turkic word for broken. There are muuuch muchh more similiar words between turkic languages and russian.

[Tamm]

My brother took a class in Russian language >> He seem to be able to speak simple words. but I always thought it would be difficult for Arab to speak Russian. However from what I see some words are very similar to their Arabic counterpart and some are exactly the same . The word which means nuts in Russian, that word has exactly the same pronunciation in Arabic, but it means a Hotel. That is really interesting.

[Sertan Kaçar]

I really loved the new thing which you put origins of the words and how they entered the languages

[Vladimir Kharin]

It was so interesting! I didn't really know that Turkish and Russian languages have so much in common!

[viper]

hundreds of years under golden horde, a lot of changing borders caused turkish words migration in russian and even more ukrainian languages

[Vladimir Kharin]

@viper well, history never was one of my strengths :)

[DenisLD]

Another great video! I love how you added the info on how the words entered their respective languages!

[Maria]

omg I love comparative linguistics! your channel is a gift

[Bahador Alast]

Thank you!!

[abdurahman49]

Very cool idea to add the word's Etymology on the screen. Good job Bahador!

[Medet Akhmetov]

I wish I was in Toronto to participate in this... and I am from Kazakhstan speaking kazakh which is turkic language :)

[Oğuzhan TÜRK]

Türkiye'den salam bolsun Kazakistan'a. :)

[chancellor puddinghead]

Kadyrbek Nurlybekov You will, soon! As a Turkish girl, i would die for a cute tall Russian guy

[aonairskies]

Kadyrbek Nurlybekov What's so good about foreigners?Everyone should be happy with their race.Kazakh people are the real Turks in terms of genes.

[Marcus Aurelius]

@aonairskies Explain me the EXACT meaning of the "real Turks". Then we can discuss.

Seeing the shared vocabulary is awesome and a little bit of a culture shock haha

[madonebo]

Abi seni görmek şaşırttı beni yaa :)...

[It's okay Joye]

whats shocking? Russians and Balkan Slavs, all were influenced by Turks, Ottoman or Golden Horde

[Jelena Ivanović]

Great video!!! And nicely done Simal representing university of Toronto 👏👏

[Türk]

Jelena Ivanović Is Şimal studying in University of Toronto ?

[Jelena Ivanović]

@Türk I am assuming so because in previous episodes Bahador mentioned him and several others in the videos graduated from University of Toronto (you can see in Croatian vs Slovak video)

[Berk Çandar]

@Türk I think most of the people in this channel are from University of Toronto or used to go there

[SCHUCK]

@Jelena Ivanović These people on the channel mainly came to Canada as working professionals and as students come to study

[Mahir Haxhiu]

@SCHUCK How do you know that?

[It's okay Joye]

A few notes, 1. the word Sapka (shapka) is derived from French word "chapeau", means "hat". Russian suffix "ka" is very commonly used in creation new words. Example: futbol (football) + ka = futbolka (t-shirt). 2. The word "Krol" (karol) is derived from the German (franks) king's name "Karolus Magnus" (short. Karl). 3. "Sandik" is also widely used by Central Asian Turks, Ural Turks, as they also had been influenced by Persian culture and language as well. 4. and finally, Russian, Ukrainian, and Balkan Slavic languages have ridiculous amount of Turkic loan-words due to Ottoman Empire and Golden Horde domination.

[Oguz]

you did a great work with the subtitles-explaining the words origins!!!

[Ho Athanatos]

Magazine in most languages comes from the French word, which meant a warehouse or storage in the medieval era, but evolved to just mean a store/shop in modern French. However, it comes ultimately from the Arabic word, makhazin, meaning warehouses from the verb khazana - to store. In English the word originally meant warehouse or storage facility as well but a magazine list or book was an inventory list for a warehouse, and by the 18th century catalogues selling people goods and alerting people of a store's inventory and sales started to be called magazines as well. We stopped using the French word in preference to the Germanic warehouse, but continued to use the term for the written documents. The magazine of a gun also gets its name from the fact that it is the place where ammunition is stored.

[Yakov Kemer]

Bahador, I am learning Swedish, my mother language is Russian. There are so many common words. I can help you with words for both languages if you want

[AnnesEva]

Nice video, good job! Liked the new guest Sasha. She seems to be very funny with her sassy comments, would love to see her more on your channel.

[johnny kozakovsky]

This was really cool video. Especially for me being half Russian and half Turkish. I like that you brought up some words being from ottoman time since a lot of people don’t know that.

[Russian with Anastasia]

Wow, that's exciting! ❤🙏 Thanks for the episode!

[Bahador Alast]

Спасибо ❤

[Russian with Anastasia]

Corporal Sky yes, I am. 🙂

[idiotic1021]

In Urdu (Pakistan). Storage box is also Sanduk, watermelon is Tarbuz, hazelnut is Fundaq

[aonairskies]

Please do one with any Turkic language vs Turkish!I think it will be interesting and shows our culture as well

[attila23]

Just in case, keep in mind that "Ğ" is not soft g, it is called 'g is silent' in English, most of Turkish people say soft G for it because they directly translate it from 'yumuşak(soft) g' :)) However, in English soft g (magic, page, generation, engine etc.)) and hard g(grab, gum, strong, pig etc.) exists as well.

[Şimal Görmüş]

attila23 i learned a new thing

[Harj Singh Waraich]

Hey I understood Karpus, we call it karbooj(a) meaning water melon. In our language Divan means a court or council of people, shakar is of course sugar, chai is tea, and sevrim is like, and sevorum is love in turkish, and eggplant is baingan in my language You are all so sweet. Look forward to watching more videos guys Take care

[Altai Aila]

Your country ?

[Erdinç Çiftçi]

Divan also means court in Turkish, too, but it's a little archaic.

[Alexei Abrikosov]

This was really educational and fun to watch.

[2k17]

It was so good you put the origin of the guessed words ! Wow I love your videos

[v]

Wow, sanduk and finduk being a part of so many languages :o. Riklam is also used in Tajiki I believe. I'm guessing that is due to the Soviet presence, unless it is also used in Persian in Afghanistan or Iran (my Persian is horrible and mixed b/w Tajik and Dari dialects). Ecran is used in french for screen as well!!!

[Nature, Culture & Heritage]

Im from West Bengal, INDIA Most of the word turki/russian (in this programme) also use in Indian languages in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali... Im an Indian, Bengali uses those word in our languages also 🎉

[Nature, Culture & Heritage]

As an example we pronounce the turkish word(English tea) Chay as chaa(Bengali) and in hindi chay, also use Sinduk (a big storage box), Baba (father)

[Nasra Sheekh]

some of the words that are Arab origins like Sunduq/sunduk are also used in the Somali language, amazing

[Dejan Stoimenovski]

Slavic and Turkic/Turan people have a lot of history between.

[Elac Teubusht]

No

[mülayim bombacı]

Yeah. Roxelana & süleyman 😁

[Луди Жабац]

yea but very bad history

[Александр Милорадович]

Извини за вопрос, ты не из Македонии? 😅

[Dejan Stoimenovski]

@Александр Милорадович Да од Македонија

[Popescu Mădălin Mihai]

Very cool, I heard a lot of words that say exactly the same,with the same meaning in Romanian!

[Valentina]

The Russian girl is so playful and cute! 😊 and Simal looking fabulous as always

[Am_Minecraft]

I am from Ukraine and i speak too Russian language but i think she came up with a very difficult sentence .And she chatted very quickly.

[Живко Яннкуловски]

The explanation about the origin of the word is a great addition. Also: SUOMI and MAGYAR.

[Dymytry Ruban]

"Vesi" and "viz" are the only similarities that come to my mind.

[Живко Яннкуловски]

@Dymytry Ruban | I seached once for similar words and I found around 10 I think but I dropped it. I thought they might be more similar since they descend from the same tree but apparently, way too different.

[גל צופר]

Lots of love to Russia and turkey from Israel. Love you

[The Mengene]

💖

[Yaren.]

Love from Turkey to both xx❤💋

[Ali Eren Kaplan]

No offense but Turkish people don't like Israel people i didn't think like that but %90 still thinking like that.

[Sound Heart]

Yes we love you to, but stop bombing Palestine

[גל צופר]

@Sound Heart believe me 12 years the same head of state is laying on the chair like he is trying to lay an egg and nothing changed here. We had enough. I mean dont get me wrong i love my state and there is plenty of room here for all races religions sexualities and cultures but its time the goverment realise (not just the israeli goverment) that a leader is working for hes people and bot the other way around. Love you all

[Phill]

Sasha was really funny and positive! More of her if possible

[Poseidon OKEANOS]

Turkish and Greek it probably would be magnificent😘 Brothers of the Aegean Sea

[mericevros]

Ummm I dont think so

[Poseidon OKEANOS]

@mericevros Ok. No Problem It's your opinion and that is mine.

[thraciensis]

Yes, siblings of Aegean/Anatolian

[mericevros]

@thraciensis no

[Akın Özer]

Greetings from Smyrna ❣️

[Mariusz Kozłowski]

In Polish: Watermelon - Arbuz Hat - Czapka (chapka) Big box - kufer, skrzynia Cherry - wiśnia Dywan - carpet King - Król Advertisement- Reklama Newspaper - gazeta Parrot - Papuga Warehouse - Magazyn Screen - ekran Tea - herbata but pot is czajnik (chaynik) Eggplant - bakłażan (sounds almost exactly like Russian word)

[Kara Kral]

İn turkısh; Karpuz, küfe, şapka, vişne, divan, kral, reklam, gazete, papagan, magazin, ekran, çay

[Mariusz Kozłowski]

@Kara Kral surprisingly similar to Polish, I think you changed the order with box and hat. Clearly Polish got a lot of these words from Russian which got it from Turkish.

[Tahir Yildiz]

Your name is also exit in Russian as Bogatir like in Turkis Bahadır :) and Ocak ( fire place) in Russian Odjak ( pronouncing like oaçhak) Samovar po Russkiy at us Semaver (Russian origin) and Loshad ( Horse) in Ancient Turkish Alaş At ( Mustang-wild horse living in nature free) İnjir=incir, ayva also same in both langs. And Roksana (Oksana- Kseniya) name is derived from Persian like at us Rahşan :)

[Altysha Koichueva]

As a kyrgyz person who speaks both languages: turkish and russian, it is very interesting)

[BLACK EAGLE]

Karpuz = watermelon 🍉 Vishnje = black cherries Divan = soffa Gazete = newspaper Pambuk=cotton Çelik= steel Patllixhan =egg plant Çaj=tea Daja= uncle Sheqer = sugar Penxhere = window Sabah= morning In Albania we say the same coz we've lot's of Turkish loanwords

[Sebastian Molin]

Turns out, all of these words also made their presence in the Romanian language as well! They entered Romanian mostly through Ottoman Turkish although some have disputed origins. I bet many of them were introduced under Ottoman rule, and under the Vlah-Bulgarian Empire, where Romanians administered in Slavonic, the official language of the (at the time) present Orthodox Church! Regardless of how they got there, check this out.... Harbuz: watermelon, (the term is used in northeastern Romania and in the Republic of Moldova (greater Moldova or historical Moldova region) Șapcă: hat Sunduc: a box with a cap, usually used to hold good stuff like gold Vișine: (specifically sour) cherries Divan: a sofa without a backrest... mostly found in the countryside Funduc: refers to a Turkish golden coin for us... (so same word, different use?) Carar/caral: used in the 1800s mostly in Romanian, it meant "a decision, a judiciary action" Reclamă: advertisement (paper ad or tv ad) Gazetă: Newspaper, Journal with news (although the word "ziar" is more common, "gazetă" is still an acceptable term/synonym) Papagal: parrot Magazin: store Ecran: screen Ceai: tea Pătlăgea: a plant that produces fruit (mainly "pătlăgică roșie" means "red pătăgea", nowadays everyone just calls it "roșie (red)" and "pătlăgea vânătă" means "purple pătlăgea" now everyone just calls it "vânătă (purple). Pretty cool! Every. Single. Word, ahaha!

[VdaGr8]

Proto Indo European

[Amira Safwat]

I study Russian and I speak Arabic I found a lot of words connected to each other between the 2 language.

[Anthony Esmailov]

Awesome video. I didn't realize how many similar words Russian and Turkish have.

[deniz]

This is nothing.

[J]

Some of the words mentioned in the video also exist in Arabic, for example a box, a hotel, a telephone and the same pronunciation 😂😅

[Цветной Кружок]

Не думала, что эти два языка можно сравнить😁

[Indranil Bagchi]

Interestingly, many Turkish and even Russian words are also used in Bengali with minor transformations, e.g 'sinduk' in Bengali is also a box. Interesting.

[Unslaad Krosis]

This trio can merge and an Azerbaijani can form out of it lmao

[Orkhan Huseynli]

As a person from Azerbaijan I understand both languages :D

[What's in my mind]

How?

[Orkhan Huseynli]

@What's in my mind Turkish is in the same origin as Azerbaijani. And from our Soviet past some people know Russian

[What's in my mind]

@Orkhan Huseynli Thanks! I am from Pakistan

[Гюнай Гусейнова]

Me too

[Johan Sörensson]

I think your videos are very interesting. Can you do Swedish vs. some other language? That would be really interesting.

[Bahador Alast]

If someone can introduce me to a fluent Swedish speaker in Toronto who wants to take part, I would be more than happy to! In fact, anyone here who speaks a Northern European language fluently!

[Vera]

if you get the chance pls do kazakh and turkish ! there are many words that are similar especially numbers and body parts