%0 Journal Article
%T An Evaluation of Syntactic and Some Suffixal Similarities Between the Sumerian and Turkish Languages
%A L. G¨¹rkan G£¿k£¿ek
%A O£¿uzhan Abac£¿
%J -
%D 2018
%X Sumerians are one of the earliest peoples of Mesopotamia. Finding the cuneiform writing system at around 3200 BC, they made one of the most important discovery of the civilization history. The writing system they used was adopted by many other peoples and thus the Sumerians helped us to shed light on many unknown facts of the Near Eastern world. Researches on the language of Sumerians revealed that the Sumerian was the earliest representative of the agglutinative languages. It is now understood that also the language of Elamites, the language of Hurrians and Hattis living in Anatolia, and that of Urartians having lived in today¡¯s Eastern Anatolia of Turkey in the 1st millenium BC had an agglutinative language structure like Sumerian. Additionally, such languages as today¡¯s Mongolian, Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish appear to come from the the same origin. In parallel with this, there are now lots of Sumerian words that are verified to live in Turkish. The reflected elements from Sumerian to Turkish is not only limited to words. That some grammatical principles of Sumerian is similar to those of Turkish is also the case. With the fact that Sumerian has not been fully understood, the studies on this language still continue and so new findings are revealed. Even though the adjectives follow the nouns while qualifying a noun in Sumerian, some other structures as in Turkish are seen. Sumerce¡¯de, bir ismi niteleyece£¿i zaman s£¿fatlar£¿n genellikle isimden sonra kullan£¿ld£¿£¿£¿ g£¿r¨¹lse de T¨¹rk£¿edeki yap£¿ya benzer durumlarla da kar£¿£¿la£¿£¿r£¿z. The terminative case marker -£¿e/-e£¿e which adds an ¡°until¡± meaning to time expressions seem to be in use with almost the same form and the same function. In addition, the genitive case marker -ak, dative case marker -ra, ablative-instrummental case marker -ta, locative case marker -a, equative case marker -gim (=gin7) are also similar in terms of grammatical use and appearance compared to their Turkish counterpart
%K Sumerce
%K dil
%K dilbilgisi
%K s£¿fatlar
%K ismin halleri
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/atdd/issue/42090/508820