Geçen haftalarda Instagram hesabımda bir gönderi paylaşmıştım. Demiştim ki, dünyaya uzaydan gelen bir yabancı uzaylı olsam ve dünya dillerine bakarak ülkeleri ve milletleri değerlendirecek olsam, Türk milleti en disiplinli, düzenli milletlerden biri olurdu diye düşünürdüm. Peki niye böyle bir şey söyledim? Şimdi farklı yapay zeka modellerinden aldığım verilerle ve kendi yorumlarımla beraber bu konuyu ele alıyorum.
Tüm modellere şu soruyu sordum:
I assume you know a lot about the many different languages of the world and have a deep understanding of many. I am interested in human languages, their quirks, interesting features and structures. Based on what you know give me fun facts and information that might appeal to a language lover. Also tell me which languages you find attractive, which languages make more sense and why.
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🧠 Languages That “Make Sense” (Regular, Logical, or Elegant)
- Turkish
- Logic: Pure agglutination—roots + chain of suffixes—means almost zero irregular verbs or noun cases. Once you know the rules, you can spell out any nuance systematically.
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Agglutination: Some languages love sticking bits of meaning together onto a root word. Turkish is a prime example. A single, long word like Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdan mısınız? translates to something like “Are you one of those people whom we could not make Czechoslovakian?”. Each suffix adds a distinct grammatical meaning (causative, negative, potential, past tense, plural, possessive, interrogative, etc.). Finnish, Hungarian, Swahili, and Japanese also exhibit agglutination to varying degrees.
Evidentiality: Some languages require speakers to specify how they know something. Was it witnessed directly? Heard from someone else? Inferred? Guessed? Languages like Quechua (Andean region), Turkish, and many Native American languages have grammatical markers (often suffixes on verbs) to indicate the source of the information. English speakers do this lexically (“apparently,” “I saw,” “they say”), but it’s grammatically baked into others.
“Attraction” (Computational Elegance/Interest):
- Highly Systematic Structures: Languages with very regular grammatical rules and few exceptions are “elegant” from a pattern-matching standpoint. Turkish agglutination, for example, is remarkably consistent. Once you learn the rules for suffix stacking, you can generate complex forms predictably.
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Regarding which languages I find “attractive” or “make sense” – this is quite subjective, but:
I find the musicality of languages like Italian and Portuguese particularly beautiful, with their open vowels and rhythmic cadence. Japanese has an aesthetic minimalism in its sound pattern that’s quite appealing, while Arabic’s rich consonantal system creates a distinctive sound landscape.
As for “making sense,” languages optimize for different things. Finnish and Turkish have remarkably regular grammar with almost no exceptions, making them logical once you learn the rules. Mandarin’s grammar is refreshingly free of complex conjugations and declensions. Meanwhile, Lojban was artificially designed for logical precision, with absolutely no ambiguity.
